An almost two-hour conversation in which Benjamin Mascolo talked about everything, starting from his love life. Which in this specific case means his three-year love for Bella Thorne, half of which was characterized by threesomes, which – according to the singer of the former duo Benji and Fede – led to the end of the story with the actress, whom he met at the American music festival Coachella. “She is bisexual, she likes both girls and men – Mascolo tells Luca Casadei’s “One More Time” podcast –. She was often alone in America and suffered greatly from being alone, so there were hours of phone calls in which she cried and told me: “I am alone”. One day he asks me if he can go out with a girl. At this moment I say yes. I wanted to make her happy, but later I realized that I was suffering from a bit of jealousy. There was a time when she went with other girls when I was in Italy. Then it happened that we had sexual relations with other girls. At first you think: “How cool. I’m engaged, in love and also sleeping with other women: models, actresses…” You feel cool. I didn’t realize that this thing was slowly eroding our intimacy.
The two even got engaged, but then the relationship fell apart and Benji admits that it was his fault too. “As an immature person, I didn’t know how to handle the situation,” he explains. I started seeing girls at parties and thought, “I wonder what she’s like, maybe we could get her into bed together.” I got caught in this loop, completely wrong. This made the relationship toxic, largely due to my fault. I felt like a kid in a chocolate factory, so I stuffed myself with everything. We suffered from our very intense lifestyle.” The separation was accompanied by a period of great personal stress, which led the singer to take drugs. «I started using amphetamines and methamphetamines. I took psychedelic mushrooms two to three times a week. I started taking ecstasy. Bella said to me, “Until you solve your drug problems, we can’t live together anymore.” I moved into a hotel in Beverly Hills with a friend who had a drug problem. I was often afraid of dying. I almost died of an overdose. At that moment I repeated in my head: “I want to live, I want to live.”
The final meeting with Thorne takes place under the influence of ecstasy and doesn’t go well at all: Benji strips naked after climbing over the property’s fence, which scares the actress to death. Back in Italy, he decides to throw everything away and clean himself up. «I have been sober since June 19, 2022. Right choice.” Today he has a new girlfriend and has started making music again, but far away from Fede, as the duo broke up in 2020 due to differences of opinion (“I tried to carve out a place for myself as a singer too, but Fede did it.” “I don’t agree”), but Benji’s hope is to return to work with a friend, then a brother. “He’s a special person,” he admits, “and I have him I have a lot to be grateful for.” Without him I wouldn’t be where I am today, I love him with all my heart, even if we argued.