At 31 years old Giulia Salemi she has reached a maturity that allows her to recognize how much she has grown compared to when she began her career. «When I was little I suffered because I felt much more ignorant than the others: It took me a while to understand how important culture was, and it was at that moment that I worked hard to recover it, since it was the only way to no longer be uncomfortable and to improve myself as a person. Today I no longer want to be the stupid Giulia, but a woman who is able to convey content, talk about important issues and take positions without ever having the presumption of having arrived”, says Giulia, consolidating, in fact, a path that is leading her to demonstrate that she is much more than what her detractors have always thought of her. Over the years, Giulia has grown, making herself known as a competitor, as a commentator, as an entrepreneur and, now, as an interviewer. In his first podcast I don’t do it for fashiona title that came about due to a misunderstanding with a journalist during an interview, Giulia chooses, in fact, to collect the testimony of various characters from the world of entertainment – from Clara to Giulia De Lellis – to allow him to open up about everything. Like Alfonso Signorini, «who dropped several bombs, including when he was bullied and beaten as a child. On TV we’re always on the alert, and that’s why it’s nice to give our best in a different setting like that of a podcast.”
His podcast combined what the Big Brother had interrupted, given that this year he did not work with Alfonso Signorini within the program.
«We have a beautiful relationship: we have always seen and spoken to Alfonso during this year, and when at the end of the episode I told him that I will always be grateful to him for the opportunities he has given me and he replied that he wants my friendship I was forever excited. Gossips give up whatever time they find.”
He saw it anyway Big Brother this year?
«Yes, having done two editions as a competitor and another as a social expert in the studio, I have a weakness for the GF, which I always enjoy watching. Even though I didn’t expose myself during the year, for the final I wanted to wish good luck to Alfonso and the whole group with whom I remained on excellent terms. This year the format has changed a lot compared to the past, and this is why the effort had to be repaid.”
It is no coincidence that the podcast will also have Beatrice Luzzi among its guests: do you like it?
«I’m very curious. She is a 50 year old woman who has a great experience that I was interested in talking about. She reached real fame, she distanced herself from the world of entertainment for twenty years and then returned: in the podcast I ask her the reasons for that disappearance, whether it was her choice, and she was very generous, also talking about the relationship with his mother as well as the experience at GF which is still metabolising.”
What stage of life do you think you are in right now?
«In that of pacification. Maybe it’s because I’m growing up and I keep asking myself a lot of questions. I don’t feel like I’ve arrived, I live with anxiety about the past and the future and I always think about what I could have done better. Compared to a few years ago I feel much calmer and a little more resolved, especially after a year in which I went a bit haywire, sucked into a centrifuge.”
What caused this tilt?
«The desire not to focus only on beauty and image to demonstrate that I am something else and show others who Giulia Salemi really is. The podcast, in this sense, is the means through which I try to show my soul and in which I strive to show my fragilities: I am 31 years old, I have to deal with the fact of saying goodbye to my adolescence forever but also with the desire to become a woman capable of coping with situations, hoping to feel useful and feel good about myself.”
The desire to be up to par comes from recovering culture: do you think you have fulfilled it more for others or for yourself?
“Both. We are always bombarded by the judgment of others, and I would be lying if I said I didn’t pay attention to it. Alfonso always told me to study, to inform myself, to be curious, and this helped me because outside of social media, when you go to an event, to a television program or in a formal context, it is important to try to talk about everyone the topics without feeling inferior or wrong because I’m not prepared. Pierpaolo and I (Pretelli, ed.) in this we have improved a lot: we read a lot, we are open to stimuli and we have decided to hold on to real life closer. Compared to the past, I often cancel my appointments to accompany my grandmother to San Raffaele and spend important moments with my family: life is one. Especially in a city like Milan that dries you like a dementor.”
How does Milan drain you?
«In his hypocrisy and his arrogance. My manager always tells me that he hates falsehood, and he’s right.”
What saves her?
“The truth. I’m tired of people thinking that to be accepted you have to be an asshole. In this phase of my life I need authenticity.”
Giulia Salemi and Pierpaolo PretelliCHIARA MIRELLI
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