«Maria from “A Doctor in the Family”? No joy for the success, I ran away from the set 4 times. Tormented love with Sermonti and then hell”

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Margot Sikabonyi, whether she likes it or not, in the imagination of many Italians will forever remain Maria, Lino Banfi’s granddaughter in the Rai1 drama “Un medico in famiglia“. An actress since the age of 11, a life in apparent escape from that cumbersome profession and in search of greater answers, she spoke about the difficulty of growing up in the spotlight, marked by success and personal pain, such as the death of her father when she was only 15 years old and already living on set, since her divorce and rebirth in a city, Milan, that didn’t belong to her. Today, also thanks to yoga and shamanism, he has found balance by dedicating himself to family and writing, with the recent publication of a novel. «When the success of Un medico in famiglia exploded, I was 15 years old: offers from the cinema arrived, the butler under my house no longer made me pay for the snack… But I didn’t find joy in anything», Margot Sikabonyi tells Corriere della Sera. After years of celebrity, she felt the need to escape, to get away from the spotlight and to find herself: «As soon as I was 18, I ran away, looking for something, I didn’t know what. I went to Paris, then to study Marine Biology in Hawaii.” And here nature began to heal her.

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A doctor in the family, what happened to Maria? Margot Sikabonyi talks about her new life

Margot Sikabonyi, the success of A Doctor in the Family

The pressure of success and personal pain marked his adolescence: «My father died while I was on set, I was 15, I didn’t see my friends because I didn’t go to school and the teachers came to the dressing room», he remembers.

The success of the series, although great, did not give her peace of mind. “I didn’t feel up to it, I had impostor syndrome,” he explains, also talking about the acting courses he wanted to take in the years when his career was well and truly launched. Margot found herself struggling with her identity, torn between the character that defined her and the desire to discover who she really was. «In my relationship with her, I went from “I’m super hot” to “I want to escape”, then, I used it to understand who I was. Now, as a divorced mother, I only feel gratitude.”

The story with Pietro Sermonti

Margot Sikabonyi lived an intense love story with Pietro Sermonti, her partner both in real life and in the series “A doctor in the family”.

The relationship, which lasted six years, was tormented, with difficult moments both on the set, where they met in the third season, and in private life. “I was shooting romantic scenes when I wanted to headbutt him,” she said. The actress then faced an even more complex period from a sentimental point of view with the divorce from Jacopo Lupi, father of her children: «The hardest moment of my life was the divorce, the castle of the family collapsing, taking the responsibility not to pretend that everything is fine.”

The inner journey

After many escapes and returns, Margot embarked on an internal journey, made up of yoga, meditation and meetings with shamans. «The most important path was the yogic one, which has to do with breathing and came with the death of my father», he explains. This spiritual journey led her to discover a different dimension of happiness and well-being. She also faced the trauma of divorce and the difficulty of raising two children alone in a city that didn’t feel like hers, finding comfort in prayer and, in a crucial moment, in the perception of an angelic presence: «I felt an angel putting me hands on my shoulders and protected me… After that, I was never the same”, she also said in the book published by Cairo, “Lara wants to be happy – Zen Novel”. The novel explores the theme of the search for happiness and connection with oneself. “I would like those who read it to be able to feel that, whatever difficulty they are facing, they are not alone,” says the author.

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