Her happiness was contagious: Michelle Hunziker made Zelig laugh and won her over with her disarming friendliness. But when she came home in the evening, she cried alone for a long time: she was experiencing one personal tragedy that few people knew about. He told it into the microphones of Gianluca Gazzoli’s podcast: Go to BSMT. The years between 23 and 27 were the most terrible he experienced joined a cult.
The “perfect victim”
“I wanted answers because my father died very early, I had a pretty difficult childhood and I was the perfect victim for something like this“, has explained. “You ask yourself a lot of questions and these questions, if you are a sensitive and curious person, lead to the spiritual, the subtle.” Go and look for the energy, the esotericism that gives you answers, so that those “Who you really love, don’t ask you for money. If he’s not a professional. The professional does his job, it’s different.”
And it was fortunate that Michelle Hunziker was busy with Zelig during these difficult years. «It was my smile therapy. It gave me a chance to bring out the idiot in me. I was the stupid sister of men who were in a group. It was a camaraderie situation. When everything was going very well, we moved from Italia 1 to Canale 5: our ratings were too high for Italia 1. There were 25 idiots who made me laugh like crazy and I lost my mind. Work has always saved money in all phases of my life.
“They isolate you from everyone”
The members of the cult managed to isolate her from everyone who was close and loved her. “You work on your inadequacies, with the great need for love and affection, on the feeling of loneliness. Then they are very intelligent because First they fill you with love, and then when they realize they have control over you, they push you away from everyone who could intervene, i.e. family members, husbands, loved ones. And they are very smart because by pushing you away, the other person on the other side gets angry, your family members get scared and tell you that you are crazy and seek treatment. And conflicts arise. “You rightly don’t know how to deal with something like that.”
When she finally managed to leave the sect, “everyone called me: Eros Ramazzotti was the first, then my mother and also Pier Silvio Berlusconi.” They were all very happy.”
Three years of panic attacks
However, turning the page was not so easy and immediate: “When I came out, I started having panic attacks, For three years I woke up at three every night and thought I was going to die because they told me that if I left them I would die in my sleep. At three o’clock I had a panic attack. Me and Aury were alone.”
The sect also distanced her from Eros Ramazzotti: “We broke up because of this».