“As women, we are always blamed for the breakdown of marriages or for not working hard enough to save them.” We are labeled as irresponsible. I do not agree. Being a parent is a big responsibility, and being a single parent by choice doesn't change that. You just take back your individuality, your life.” In a long interview with the weekly newspaper Grazia, Elisabetta Canalis speaks for the first time about the end of her relationship with the Italian-American surgeon Brian Perri, with whom she had her daughter Skyler. Both continue to live in Los Angeles, in two houses ten minutes apart. The showgirl and the surgeon married in 2014. A year later, their daughter was born. The separation was about a year ago. “I've been waiting to talk about it, I want to respect everyone's sensitivity,” Canalis says in the interview. I have a wonderful relationship with my ex-husband, we have no secrets, but we put the interests of our daughter Skyler Eva above our own. We are separated but not yet legally divorced. When I think back to my wedding, I didn't expect things to turn out this way. But over the years I have come to understand that we are constantly changing and that the relationship between two is bound to change. You can deal with a breakup either in a traumatic way or by looking into each other's eyes and trying to understand each other. Brian and I are part of this second group.
He doesn't want to return to Italy
A return to Italy is not part of the former showgirl's plans, although she continues to work a lot in Italy. Together with Carolina Crescentyini and Giampaolo Morelli he shot a comedy that will be released in cinemas in 2024 and we will soon see on television, on Italia 1 in Enrico Papi's program “Tilt”. The decision to stay in the USA, where Canalis has lived since 2012, is to protect the father-daughter relationship: “I will not move. My daughter is 8 years old and goes to primary school. My priority and Brian's from the beginning was not to mess up his life. Consistency works for Skyler and needs to be encouraged in homework, sports and social relationships. We made it a point not to change his habits. Of course not easy. But I would never take a father like Brian away from my daughter. I took into account that I have to sacrifice myself for everything to go well. If she is older and ever wants to study in Italy and her father agrees, she will do so. But now it's premature to even talk about it.” His new partner is also mentioned in the interview, the kickboxing world champion Georgian Cimpeanu, of Romanian origin but grew up in Rome. The two met while practicing the same sport. «I'm doing very well and I'm happy. It was'nt easy. Those close to me could understand the delicate moment I was going through. And only a non-oppressive and pushy person could be with me. “There are moments in life when you have to wait for love, you have to know how to see the big picture, the big picture, to believe in the future,” concludes the showgirl in the interview.