Luca Laurenti couldn’t hold back his tears as he commemorated Maurizio Costanzo, who died yesterday aged 84, in video link with Verissimo on Canale 5 this afternoon. It was a painful moment in the episode that Silvia Toffanin opened up with touching the background of ‘Se telephones with the song written by Costanzo and sung by Mina. In the studio, Rita Pavone spoke of their friendship. “Maurizio, I put him in my family environment.
He was like a father to me. I lost everyone You don’t have to get used to losing people,” said Laurenti, always on the side of Paolo Bonolis, who has made nine editions of ‘Buona Domenica’ with Costanzo. And he apologized in a tear-broken voice: “I’m sorry to be crying here, in front of everyone. The most beautiful things, the unspoken words, are a treasure. The smiles on the video are the tears in our hearts. That’s really the artist’s secret.” Laurenti then recalled the rites in the dressing room, Costanzo’s tenderness, his love of animals. “We are all fragments of a large and small conscience. When someone dies, a part of us dies because we are one,” Laurenti said. And finally he remembered a dream. “I didn’t sleep last night and this morning I woke up crying because I dreamed it. I asked him to get up, he got dressed and I told him ‘when I think of strength, I think of you’”.
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