Maria De Filippi, “shocked” by the death of Maurizio Costanzo: “He didn’t expect it”

Maria DeFilippi she is “shocked” by the death of Maurizio Costanzo. Why he just didn’t expect it. The tells it Corriere della Seraexplaining that the presenter she visited her husband in the clinic morning and evening. Then as always at work, recording his programs, from Men and women to Friends. Costanzo had been hospitalized a week ago for a minor operation, “an annoying but not serious problem”. Nothing suggested this evolution. With friends and colleagues, the journalist had contact until Thursday. The creative mind continued to produce images, ideas: he had recovered after the surgery. He was lucid, ironic as always and also the lawyer Giorgio Assumma, his legal historian and friend, says that there was no inkling that it could end like this.

But suddenly, after thirty-three years together, Maria found herself without her Maurizio. And now, as understandable, «it is very tried, shocked, stunned». And she finds herself facing that death that she and her husband feared so much and that they would have liked to live together as the last stage of their long love story. Why surviving the death of the other, they explained, would have been “too difficult”.

Maurizio had always said he wanted Maria by his side until the last day: «I would like to die with my hand in Mary’s, without realizing it, without suffering» he had revealed in an interview with Corriere della Sera released some time ago. «I don’t know if I’ll be able to, if I have the strength and courage to reach out to him that day. Too much painMaria a had said Today just a few months ago. Adding: “I don’t want the intertwining of those fingers to remain as my last memory”.

Married since 1995, an adopted son named Gabriele, Maurizio and Maria they experienced «the love that we all would like to experience», as Claudio Lippi said yesterday, moved, on TV. Adding: “Unfortunately, now, it is a love that will do much harm to Maria”. And in fact De Filippi, after the death of her husband, closed herself in understandably painful silence. And now she will have to find the courage to go on living without the pillar of her life.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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