There was a time when Samantha de Grenet was famous, very famous. It was the time of ante-litteram influencers, those who before the social era (and like today their correspondents of the social era) were almost everywhere, on all screens and on all channels, while someone wondered why , what their real talent and merit was.
Model, presenter, even actress with Jerry Calà. But above all, he is a regular presence on television schedules: he has real estate, opinion salons, even a comedy dayshow alongside Fabio Volo. Today that life there, those spotlights always on, are a bit left behind. Times have changed, and influencers 2.0 have displaced television influencers from the podium. But Samantha de Grenet doesn’t seem to regret anything, according to what she said in an interview with Corriere della Sera.
Her career in the world of high fashion, when she paraded for Versace alongside Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Carla Bruni (“I said to myself: they must have been wrong”). Her childhood dreams (divided between wanting to be a sexy petrol station attendant and a nursery school teacher: it’s difficult to imagine two careers more at odds, but children’s imagination can be wonderfully bizarre). His lifestyle is more rigid and controlled than anyone would imagine (“I never got drunk, never took drugs, I was always precise, professional. I never went to bed with a man out of interest. I was, in hindsight, even excessively rigid”).
Samantha talks about herself in the round, in her great friendship with Eleonoire Casalegno and in the darkest moments of her life, like when she discovered she had breast cancer and had to face the fear of leaving her son Brando alone.
And then, above all, his loves. The madness of first marriage at twenty, in style, at the castle of Bracciano, with Peppino di Capri singing and a parterre of illustrious guests: a celebration which, in the bride’s soul, was tainted by the great pain of an abortion which had occurred very shortly before. Perhaps also because of that trauma, her bond with the Roma’s young player Pierfrancesco Micara it ends after only eight months, but – says de Grenet – it could have ended already during the honeymoon. The great love for Leonardo Pieraccioni and the cinematographic opportunities lost in the fear that someone might say that she was with him out of interest. As well as those lost when he was with Pippo Inzaghi (“A crazy infatuation”, which ended because he didn’t want a serious relationship). It’s still Alessandro Benetton (“my first, true, great love”), a passionate kiss with Batman (Michael Keaton) and association with Francesco Totti, up to Luca Barbato, her husband and father of her son Brando, from whom Samantha separated in 2008, after three years of marriage, and then remarried in 2015.
Finally, the encounters that cannot be told, otherwise – jokes Samantha – she would be forced to change country.
