After the death of his older brother Rafaël – Matteo was 15 at the time – the actor plunged into the nightlife. “Like a wild man,” he says in HUMO. But after a heavy party in Pukkelpop’s Boiler Room, he ended up in the hospital. “I was already beefy enough when I suddenly received a plastic bottle of Coke stuffed into my hands by someone I didn’t know very well. I emptied that bottle with enthusiasm, without first sending it to the lab for analysis, “it seems to him. With far-reaching consequences.
“What followed, I only heard about it. I jumped out and there I began to rush to the ground, like a torpedo towards imaginary submarines. My friends got scared and went to ask for help ”, says Simoni. The actor ended up in the hospital. The next day he was hardly bothered, apparently. “As if nothing had happened”. But a video a friend made of him the night before proved enlightening. “It was a wake-up call, an unequivocal message: I had to change my life”.
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