Unrestrained Sunday aunt. Mara Venier he said to himself in a long interview with “Il Corriere della Sera”, also revealing previously unpublished aspects of his past. Among the presenter’s illustrious friends Gian Maria Volonte: “Yes, but the most important thing is that we are friends with his brother, Claudio. A sensitive and troubled man. One day, it is not yet clear how, he killed a man. He ran away, then turned himself in. He ended up in a cell and committed suicide. Three days after his death, our friends received a letter: it was from Claudio, he begged, “Don’t leave me alone”.
And again: “We often went to Claudio’s house, in Capena, where he wanted some kind of municipality. We discussed politics, we passed out joints. One evening my mother found herself with us, sitting in a circle on the floor. Someone handed her a joint. ‘What is it?’ he asked fearfully. ‘Ma’am,’ I answered in Venetian, ‘shut up and smoke if it doesn’t offend you’. How did it end? Who since then has always asked to go with us.”
Then a meeting with Tinto Brass: “Once I auditioned for one of his films. He and his wife, Tinta, namely Carla Cipriani, were there. It was he who, at some point, said to me: ‘Show me your tits’. I answered: “Not in a dream”. And it all ended there.”
A curious anecdote that ties together Edwige Fenech, Mara Venier and her husband Nicola Carraro: “Edwige is one of my dearest friends. There was a time, after my separation from Renzo (Arbore, ed.), where she and I we hang out with the same fortune tellers. A cat lady from Rome, we go there almost every week.”
“Once he told me: ‘The love of your life hasn’t arrived yet. I saw it would be the right one and I also saw there would be seas, islands and travel‘. – continued Venier – I convinced myself that I would engage with the tour operator. For several months, when I was dating someone, I always asked: “Do you work in a travel agency?”. If he says no, I stop seeing him.”
And again: “Nicola was then living on an island in the Turks and Caicos archipelago. When we spent the first night together, chatting and laughing together, I didn’t immediately connect the two things. However, later, when I realized that I was fine with her, I thanked the witch within.”
And love for Renzo Arborehis other historical counterparts? “No, for me today there is only my husband. With Renzo of course we broke up because we loved each other. We broke up because we moved, not because love was over. For years after the breakup, he didn’t want to see me. We talked to each other today.”
