2025 ends in hospital for Mara Venier. The presenter of Sunday In she spent the final hours of the year recovering after undergoing a new intervention in his right eye, linked to the pathology he has suffered from for some time. She told it herself, with the usual transparency, through social media.
The message from the hospital
Mara Venier shared a video of herself on her Instagram stories lying down on a hospital bed, with his eye bandaged by a transparent protection, similar to the one already shown in the past. He wears a blue shirt and accompanies the images with simple words: “Let’s end the year like this. Happy New Year everyone. Let’s hope it’s really the end of this year“.
A message that immediately aroused affection and solidarity by the public, who has always followed the presenter not only on television but also in her own daily life.
A situation that has been going on for months
The one at the end of the year is not the first operation that Mara Venier has undergone. She had already undergone surgery last November, and over the last year she has had to undergo a total of five operations. On social media, the presenter wanted to publicly thank the doctor Andrea Cusumano, who has been following her for months in the treatment process. Venier herself had also spoken openly about her condition on television, during an episode of Domenica In on 9 November, explaining the difficulty related to the disease and the need for frequent checks and operations.
The story of the disease
In January 2025, on the occasion of the film’s release in cinemas Diamonds Of Ferzan OzpetekMara Venier had told People how it all started. During filming he felt a discomfort in one eyewith increasingly blurred vision, until one evening he realized that he could only see partially.
The investigations revealed aretinal hemorrhagecaused by a form of exudative maculopathy. The operation was immediate, but the treatment process proved to be longer and complex than expected. Despite an initial prognosis that was not very encouraging, the presenter said she had partially recovered her sight in her right eye. On several occasions, Venier has admitted how difficult it is for her slow down the rhythms, between work, constant travel and television commitments, the rest recommended by doctors is not always easy to respect.
The choice to tell everything to the fans
The news of the disease had already emerged in the summer of 2024, but Mara Venier has always chosen to maintain a direct relationship with her publicpersonally clarifying the situation and intervening to deny unfounded rumors. He also did it when speaking with Dagospiareiterating the desire to face the disease with sincerity and without hiding.
Cos’è to maculopathy
Maculopathy, or macular degeneration, is a Together of pathologies that affect the macula, the central part of the retina responsible for clear vision and details. The disease causes a progressive loss of central vision, while peripheral vision tends to remain preserved. There are two main forms, the dry maculopathy or atrophic, more common and slow evolving and the wet maculopathy or exudative, more aggressive, linked to the formation of new abnormal blood vessels.
Among the most frequent symptoms are distortion of straight lines and
the appearance of one dark spot in the center of the visual field. The diagnosis is made through an eye examination and tools such as OCT and angio-OCT, while the treatment varies based on the form of the disease.
