Vincenzo Mollica experiences the drama of an illness that haunts him. Here’s how the historic journalist is today, famous for his legendary interviews with the Ariston of Sanremo
Vincenzo Mollica he is a historical journalist, as well as a draftsman, author, television and radio host. In short, a man with a great capillary culture who became famous also for his legendary interviews with the Ariston of Sanremo during the Festival.
Mollica participated for the last time in the Festival in the 2020 edition, conducted by Amadeus. On that occasion, greeted by a long standing-ovation, the journalist has shown himself to be rather in pain. The public and the insiders have noticed it.
Interviewed by Corriere della Sera and during the show Che tempo che fa last year, the 67-year-old explained that he suffers from a series of diseases that compromise their health. Let’s see what the reporter said.
Vincenzo Mollica, illness: “I have Parkinson’s and I’m almost blind”
A long series of health problems afflicts Vincenzo Mollica. The journalist told, even with a lot of irony and the positivity that has always distinguished him over the years, of suffering from glaucoma, which in recent years has reduced her vision by 95%: “I’ve never seen my left eye, due to a uveitis that hit me as a child, followed by a plastic iridocyclitis”.
He said that at the age of 7-8 he heard his parents say the ophthalmologist “Will go blind”. From there the desire to want to memorize everything that surrounded him, in such a way as to remember everything about the world, once darkness falls.
And for all those who saw him with a tremble in his hands during the evenings in which he was framed on the balcony of the Ariston during the Sanremo 2020 Festival, he clarified with a joke: “That’s the Parkinson’s disease. I do not miss anything. I also have the diabetes. I am a skilled orchestrator of medicines ”.
That was his thirty-ninth and last participation in the Sanremo Festival, since he was retired. For the next Festival, Amadeus has a series of ideas in mind to make the edition unique, starting with the presence of Fiorello.
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