Marianna Mammone, aka Big Mama, has just won a gold record with Anger is not enough for you. The singer from San Michele di Serino in Irpinia has overcome body shaming and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. And in an interview with Corriere della Sera today she says that in the ranking of the prettiest in the class she ended up in last place: “Because you’re a barge.” «Kids defend themselves from a bad life with perfidy. However, I don’t justify adults.” In fact, there was a professor who mocked her and who never apologized: «But when? She wrote me a message as if I were her daughter: “Dear Marianna, do you remember me?”. I ignored it. If I told her that she made me feel bad she would reply: “Okay but I was playing”. That teacher doesn’t realize that he has started an avalanche of negative comments and jokes from his classmates.”
Violence
She talks about the boy who locked her in the bathroom and raped her at 16: «I would repeat to him step by step what happened. For him, and for many like him, women are a commodity. Since then it has happened to me other times that they tried to abuse me, but I managed not to succumb. The last one was three or four years ago, I was drunk and someone put me in his car with the excuse that he was taking me home. He didn’t go through with it but the next day I was bruised. I haven’t drunk since.” Then she talks about the delay at Sanremo 2023: «But Elodie called me for the duets evening. She was an inspiration. She charged me: “I love ‘don’t worry you’re strong. Go up, burn the stage, get down, you’ve done your job'”.
The marriage
Then he talks about his tattoo: «In 2021, for an advertising campaign my face was printed on giant billboards throughout Milan, I had sent fans… friends who treated me badly, I was getting to know Lodovica better, my girlfriend, I had lost the pounds I had put on during chemo. I was proud of myself, very happy, I felt like a goddess. And I got it tattooed.” Because women «are sensual, intelligent, superior beings, difficult to conquer… of course, it depends on the people… It’s not that by saying I’m bisexual, lesbian, or whatever I want to be, I fall in love with them all. Until four years ago I had had relationships with men, with girls only affairs. Even with Lodo she started with occasional meetings, but when he made me understand that I could trust her, I thought I deserved the love of a woman.”
The proposal
He says he won her over «with pasta and potatoes. Cooking is my message of love.” And that she intends to propose: «Mom says that after graduation I will be able to do whatever I want. As soon as I finish university I’ll propose to her.”
