Giada Oricchio March 22, 2023
Ornella Vanoni very beautiful among the beasts: the most shameless paw of the beasts belongs to her, Francesca Fagnani’s program on Rai2. In the last episode, the iconic artist, leaning calmly on the armchair in the studio, traces her life without filters and without false modesty: at the age of 80, she overcomes her pathological shyness and is ironic and sympathetic. Vanoni starts off well: “What a beast do I feel? A dog, a horse, but I really like the cow for that smell of grass, from cac*a”.
Beautiful, tall, rich and bored bourgeois. This is how the interpreter of Italian music describes himself: “They called me c**o d’oro, speaking buttocks. Where I lived, in Largo Treves, they were all big windows and I walked around naked. They said, “Oh, but I saw you from the windows”. it was true yes i am rude There was a time when I only had two pairs of underpants, one pair black and the other white.”
Fagnani laughs: “Did you use them sparingly?”, “A lot… I went out in the evening in a skirt and heels. Do you have to have underwear? It’s not safe…” Vanoni replies with sincere relief. She likes the imitation of Virginia Raffaele, but specifies “I never gave it away like a frisbee”. Vanoni recalls her adventures: she sent yellow tulips to a sheikh the next morning, but he didn’t even have a tiny diamond, and Avvocato Agnelli, who contacted her through a staff member, sent a message to call her personally: “Never heard of.” them again, so much did he make advances to all.”
Her great love was Gino Paoli, now her boyfriend: “Yes, but he made me suffer”, while Giorgio Strehler was the man who loved her more than anyone else. A tortured tale of extreme sex and drugs: ‘I left him, he called me back to get me back. I said no because I knew it wouldn’t change.” Honestly about dualism with Mina: “We were very good friends, we went out together in the evenings, she really liked playing cards, she wanted to teach me, but nothing , they’re falling out of my hands – said Vanoni – I felt like a number two compared to her. Then I realized we were both good, just different in style.” The regret is having rejected the song “Grande Grande Grande” made famous by Mina. During the interview, Ornella Vanoni recalled that her mother asked her to accept (“it’s a sure hit”), but she didn’t want to, believing it was a vulgar and allusive text “to this stuff there, come on yes, do you understand: you are great, great, great, there is no one like you… what did he mean?!“.
The artist also spoke of his vices: “After three sleepless days, they advised me to smoke. Now I roll them alone, they’re my sleeping pill, one at night before bed,” confirms Vanoni, revealing an anecdote: “When I walk down the street, the guys call out to me, ‘Ornella! I don’t have a job but I roll like god I come to be your caregiver.” And then the time she got drunk till she landed straight on the floor: “One night in the company of Renato Zero got “I drank so much that when I went back to the hotel I passed out right on my face. One day my stomach was so swollen I looked like a zeppelin, so I decided to slow down.” “I’d love to be in a role, not only in a movie but also in a TV series,” said the great Ornella with a naive and disarming smile.