The day after the sudden death of Gigi Proietti, an unforgettable actor who has marked entire generations, new details emerge about what was fatal to him. As reported, Proietti had been hospitalized for several days in the hospital, but a doctor has clarified his condition and the actor’s mood in his final hours.
Heart surgery for Gigi Proietti
After it shock for the death of Gigi Proietti, mourning and the natural curiosity to know what evil, or inauspicious event, led to his death is now spreading. Already in the early hours of yesterday, immediately after the news of the worsening of his condition, it was learned that Proietti had been hospitalized for at least 15 days in the Villa Margherita clinic in Rome.
There was talk of a heart attack, but there could be more underneath.
The news is relaunched by Dagospia, which reports how over a year ago the actor (who would have turned 80 on the day of his death) he had been operated on the aorta. An intervention which, however, would not have gone according to plan and whose complications would have dragged on until today.
Gigi Proietti, the doctor of Villa Margherita speaks
That Gigi Proietti was “severe ardiopathic for years“, also confirmed this radiologist Fabrizio Lucherini all’Adnkronos. He, who works in the Roman clinic where Proietti died yesterday morning, revealed that the actor “he came here on October 17, already in worrying conditions“. The same radiologist confirmed the heart problems, which caused multi-organ pathologies and led to the worsening of the past few days. “I clicked him that he was still shiny, but there were just too many complications” he has declared.
The mood of Gigi Proietti in his last days
That of Proietti, is a figure who will always remain synonymous with good humor, humor and that very way of taking life. It was the same in his last days, according to what Lucherini reports. “When I did the CT scan a few days ago – told the doctor – he joked about his condition: ‘How am I doing? Je do I? ‘he asked. I never felt anxious or worried. It was him“.
Just him, the one of a thousand anecdotes able to go beyond the thousand masks he wore on stage.
This is what the doctor remembers: “One of us, funny, humble. We have lost perhaps the greatest actor of all time, I have never seen a crowd like this morning here in the clinic for anyone“. Thousands of messages arrived in the last hours: from Carlo Verone to Giuseppe Conte, the beautiful poem in romanesco by Pierfrancesco Favino, the moved greeting by Alessandro Gassmann. All for him, who until the other day was asking slyly “Je do it? “.
Greetings from his daughter Carlotta
Yesterday, in addition to the greetings of friends and colleagues of a lifetime, the words of Carlotta, one of the 2 daughters who Gigi Proietti has had a relationship with Sagitta Alter for 58 years.
“I thought a lot about this moment, I dreamed it, I was terrified of it. – he wrote – A famous dad means many things, including not having an intimacy because when the ‘news’ comes out the ‘scoop’ is unleashed … all words that have nothing to do with the moment you live“.
The actress and singer-songwriter then added: “Your words and all the messages that are reaching us correspond to the love you all felt for Dad“. The daughter concludes her message as follows: “Dad lived for his audience and your affection proves it.
Thanks and thanks again for all this love“.
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Gigi Proietti, who are the “wife” Sagitta and the daughters Carlotta and Susanna
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