A child in the middle of the countryside, with a red T-shirt and books in his hands: with this shot Eleonora Daniele wanted to share on Instagram the memory of the beloved brother Luigi. February 17 is a sad date for the presenter, because it is the anniversary of the death of her big brother, who for her was just like a son.
“Six years since you’ve been gone. My great love. Without you a great void. You will always be in my heart where I will keep you all my life ”. Few, simple words that hide an emotion that is difficult to describe. Eleonora Daniele lost her brother in 2015 suddenly and still very young, only 44 years old. Luigi Daniele was suffering from a form of autism and for some time now he had lived in a specialized structure located in Padua.
Eleonora and Luigi were very close, they shared a special relationship that the host spoke about on a few occasions. One of these was in 2019 when in his Italian stories she was moved listening to Lory Del Santo tell about the tragic loss of her children. The presenter had taken the opportunity to share the still strong pain for the loss of her brother, which was wearing her down inside and therefore cannot be canceled. “Every day that passes, there is something inside of me that I cannot overcome. I can’t get over it ”, he confessed in the talk.
In the same year Eleonora Daniele he had also talked about his brother a Sunday In. In Mara Venier’s living room she had opened her heart, showing pain but also anger for Luigi’s fate: “Since I was born I wonder why it happened to him and not me, because the way to communicate has been taken away from him and it has been given to me ”.
“I wondered why I was not punished – he later added -. Probably it is God who decides and I probably do this job to be able to give a voice to people like him who couldn’t do it “.
Six years later that pain remains on and it is a flame that shows no sign of going out. But many wanted to be close to her on this sad day, showing their affection to the presenter. The Instagram post received i comments from many friends from the world of TV and entertainment, like Monica Leofreddi, Francesco Fredella, Valerio Scanu, Milena Miconi and Emanuela Tittocchia.
Eleonora Daniele has always been personally committed to supporting such a delicate and important issue as autism. He worked alongside the Italian Foundation for Autism, becoming its testimonial and lending its face for its awareness campaigns. But he did even more and in 2009, together with his sisters Elena and Cosetta, he founded the Life Inside Onlus Association dedicated to supporting families of autistic subjects.
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