Concita De Gregorio stuns the audience of “Belve”, the Rai2 show: “Complaints? I’ll pay for that.” On the Tuesday March 14 episode, presenter Francesca Fagnani sensitively explored every nuance of the well-known journalist’s character, delivering one of the most intense and candid interviews of this edition.
Until then, the moderator of the La7 talk “In Onda” trusted Fagnani to reveal unpublished details from her private life, which aroused a lot of sympathy among viewers: the tumor discovered last year under the nickname “princess” which she had received from her grandmother for the Natural received elegance, in which she recognizes herself, the house on the ground floor in the south of Rome (“certainly not radically chic”), the gifts returned to the sender from Silvio Berlusconi and other ministers, the existential melancholy and the intimate relationship with death (” I don’t mind dying, sometimes I even nurtured the possibility, there were moments in my life when I thought ‘this is enough, I’m going to disappear, I’m going to go away, I’m going to die’”).
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In 2008, Francesca Fagnani also touched on the management issue of the newspaper “L’Unità” and De Gregorio clarified: “I wasn’t organic in the party, I didn’t have a Pd card, I was put on the market, but a young director was successful in a very male-dominated environment. I spent 3 wonderful years there” and with immodesty and great self-confidence she emphasized: “In my opinion we have made a great newspaper. I left him healthy, I think I was a good editor, the newspaper took advantage of that. The failure came 12 years later, it has nothing to do with me.” But there is another side to the coin of those years at the head of “L’Unità”: the compensation for lawsuits she received due to articles that were written by their editors, but for which she was responsible as director Fagnani asked: “Your salary has been garnished. How much have you paid so far for this period?”, “Very much, I’m still at the end… 12 years have passed I’ve paid more than two million euros out of my own pocket with my work,” De Gregorio admitted with evident bitterness.