The long-distance back and forth between Mara Maionchi and Tiziano Ferro continues. The record company, Belve’s guest, had accused the singer, whom she launched towards success, of ingratitude. Ferro did not welcome his thoughts: after having told in a story all his sadness and disappointment for that judgment considered unfair, followed by evidence that refutes the record company’s version, he added a final thrust. At the beginning, Maionchi forced him to hide his homosexuality and lose weight, condemning him to unhappiness.
The singer does not write it himself, but reports in the story the post of the journalist Grazia Sambruna, who wrote an article on the matter for Mowmag. “Mara Maionchi is the record company who ‘discovered’ him in 2001 by launching our first album, Rosso Relativo. There are two conditions: lose weight and never say you are gay. Otherwise, no contract. Because he had to be a teen idol and couldn’t afford extra pounds and homosexuality. So Ferro, twenty years old at the time, learned right from the start to experience himself as a horrendous secret,” writes Sambruna in her post that gets Ferro’s applause, “Millions of people loved him for everything he wasn’t: straight and thin. So much so that already after the incredible success of the first album, the young man went to South America and didn’t want to know any more about ‘music’”.
Maionchi’s contractual impositions would have pushed Ferro into alcoholism: “This led him to be, in addition to being a highly performing musical product, an infinitely unhappy person off stage. With consequent problems of alcoholism and self-esteem among professionals, in addition to the sacred terror, for ten years, of eating a plate of carbonara in peace or of being seen around with whoever he wanted. He would have lost everything otherwise. This is what Mara, the adorable grandmother with whom we would all like to play burraco in the evening, ordered. If Tiziano Ferro isn’t completely grateful to Mara Maionchi today, I wouldn’t blame him.”
