Paolo Calissano’s brother announced the completion of the investigation into the death and revealed the true reconstruction of the facts
Posted on: 28-12-2022 12:45
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It was December 30, 2021 when Paulo Calissano was found dead in his apartment in Rome. He was 53 years old. His ex-girlfriend had discovered the lifeless body on the bed Fabiola Palese. A drug overdose was suspected. The investigation initiated by the public prosecutor’s office has now been completed, almost a year later: the entrepreneur brother announced Robertreveal what really happened.
The cause of death of Paolo Calissano
Interview with the ‘Corriere della Sera’, Roberto Calissano He stated that he wanted to rid his brother’s memory “of the stigma of drug addiction”. “Prosecutors have been investigating his death for 11 months and have ordered a very thorough toxicology study,” he said.
And the conclusion was that the actor “did not die from drugs, but for antidepressant poisoning“. In fact, he seems to have suffered from a severe depression, which he treated with psychotropic drugs. This assumes that “Paul took the risk of dying”. In short, it would have been a Suicide. “I never thought I’d say that,” the brother explained, “but I think that’s how it went. It hurts me a lot to admit that.”
Photo source: IPAPaolo Calissano in a photo from 2003
The last call a few days before his death
As stated by Roberto Calissano, the actor was not found in a state of decomposition as originally leaked. “He had recently died – he said – and leaving was a fantasy of some media”. According to his account, however, in that period he couldn’t workalthough “he had written three screenplays”, one of which was autobiographical.
She last heard from him on the phone on December 19: “He was on the ground. I may not have asked him enough questions. Everything remained in the realm of the unsaid”. And he recalled: “He strove for the right to be forgotten. Instead, search engines kept throwing up this drug-related episode. He couldn’t get rid of it. It had become impossible to work“.
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The drug problem
A friend of in the early 2000s Paulo Calissanothe Brazilian dancer Ana Lucia BandeiraeraShe died of a cocaine overdose in her apartment in Genoa. He was arrested on the charge drug sales and sentenced to four years in prison.
In 2008, after a car accident, the same actor was later found positive for cocaine. He finally served his sentence in one Drug Rehabilitation Community. A stain the entertainment world would never forgive him for.
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