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Histrion and star until the end: one of the doctors who assisted the actor in the last days of his life speaks, explaining in detail the illness that caused his death
Published on November 2, 2020
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He left at night, on November 2, 2020, the day he turned 80. Even in the last act of his life Gigi Proietti it was original, as if it had been directed by an inscrutable destiny, a destiny that pushed him to be a person outside any scheme, always. An originality that led him to unroll an unrivaled career. The leitmotif of his entire existence is contagious, ‘contaminating’ laughter. But never silly and an end in itself. The smile has never left him even at the end of his life, as he said Fabrizio Lucherini, the radiologist who followed him to the clinic in Rome where he died.
The doctor, joined by AdnKronos, narrated that Proietti made fun of him to the last, even about his precarious health conditions. “‘How am I doing? Je la do? ‘, He asked. I’ve never felt anxious and worried. It was him, it was always him “, the words of Lucherini who reveals that for years the protagonist was a “Severe heart disease”. The last hospitalization began on October 17, when the actor arrived at the clinic already in worrying conditions.
It was not the first time in recent years that Proietti had had to be hospitalized urgently: “Even several years ago – the radiologist always explains – for similar reasons, he had been hospitalized, but this time it was different ”. What made the situation more critical this time was the fact that Gigi, having heart problems, was inevitably prone to “An imbalance on everything else”, that is to say that a similar problem gave “The way to multiorgan pathologies”. Eventually his health plummeted: “I did the CT scan that he was still shiny, but there were really too many complications.”
Finally Lucherini lets himself go to a private memory, full of esteem, affection and humanity:
“I still have a memory of him from a few years ago – adds the doctor – when we won a cup with the soccer team and went to celebrate in his favorite restaurant. He was there with some people, we called him to the table for a toast and he stayed with us at the table. 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 “.
Proietti, a life alongside Sagitta Alter
They often called her Proietti’s wife, but really Sagitta Alter and the actor are never married. They never felt this celebration urgently, the Roman showman explained several times, nevertheless never having ruled out that they might even think about it one day and get married.
The two met in 1962 and have never left each other since. She, a Swede, never returned to her native land. A sui generis love, almost six decades long (58 years of sharing, love and affection), without ever stopping. The couple had two daughters, Susanna and Carlotta (42 and 37 years), both active in the entertainment world.
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