Behind the enchanting beauty of the diva lies her dark side. there illness suddenly exploded and his personal lockdown lasted three years, to which he reacted with extraordinary force. today Francesca Neri is a symbol for rebirth, determination and courage for all women and to the divorce rumors Amendola denies: “It’s not absolutely true. Please, let’s not joke.”
After learning about the illness, Francesca revealed that she had considered suicide
‘I thought about suicide too’: Francesca’s shocking revelation
It’s impossible not to be captivated by his timeless charm, entranced by his statuesque body, enchanted by his magnetic eyes. But behind so much infinite beauty there is much more, which Francesca Neri herself told with an open heartAutobiography “Like living flesh‘ and demonstrates incredible strength. L’childhood almost happy, the indissoluble distance to the mother. Free from the need to please everyone, she began studying cinema as a sensitive and headstrong girl, determined to do something your dreams even against her family who wanted her attorney. By the moment he says enough, he decides to put an end to the provincial claustrophobic life and runs away from Trento, determined to move to Rome, where he discovers another world and another self. Another life begins for them: the world of cinema opens its doors to her, cooperation with the greatest domestic and foreign directors begins. And along with the movies that have made millions of viewers fall in love come hits, awards, red carpets, the wedding with Claudio Amendola.
The same body that directors and viewers have idolized is the one that stops its story out of the blue. Affected by a chronic bladder diseaseDeactivation that causes widespread pain: the interstitial cystitis. This pathology forces her to a forced stop for three long years. Staying away from the public, isolating in one room of the house turns out to be not only a physical but an emotional closure with devastating effects. “I also thought about suicide – revealed Francesca Neri -. When lockdown came, I felt better seeing others sharing the same isolation. But mine personal blocking it didn’t last a few months, but three years, during which I just wanted to have my peace”.
Francesca Neri with her husband Claudio Amendola
sickness and rebirth
The illness that came and exploded suddenly changed many things in his life, affecting his as wellIntimacy. As she herself confided, after falling in love with her husband Claudio Amendola, with whom she had declared “having sex at least three times a week”, the disease ended up upsetting her way of loving. “With your partner you invent a new kind of intimacy, you have to get by“. Francesca drags herself all the time between the sofa and the bathtub, where she tries to find relief from the burning and pain in her bladder. “I said to Claudio, take our son and take him away, I wanted spare him my pain. But he always stayed Do not give up. He always finds me, just like I find him.” As happens in the great love stories, Amendola always listened to her and understood her the whole time. The doctor visits, the search for treatment.
Then the turning point and the rebirth: “I realized that I couldn’t get rid of it and that I had to learn to live with it and deal with it.” Francesca decides to open up, stop keeping everything to herself, tell the story of her illness and her life, in a bold autobiography where emotions become flesh. In the hot divorce summer after 25 years of relationship, rumors are circulating about one of them these days possible separation. Categorically denied by Amendola himself, who turned to his Francesca, she said: “In a relationship, that’s what counts trust and our luck was that we met when we were growing up. My life is in his hands and his in mine. It’s wonderful, those who don’t have it don’t know they’re getting lost”. A separation is therefore not in sight, and as far as the rumors about the end of the relationship are concerned, Amendola himself rejects the sender: “That’s absolutely not true, for heaven’s sake. I don’t understand who could have spread such a rumor. Please, let’s not joke“.