Asia Argento: «Today I turn three years of sobriety: I think, speak and dream differently. This is my face as a serene almost 50-year-old”

A post that clears everything up. «Today I turn 3 years of sobriety. This date is more important to me than my birthday: three years ago today my journey of rebirth began.” June ninth, two thousand and twenty-four, Asia Argento gives himself a new start on Instagram, in front of over 700 thousand followers. He deletes all the messages he had shared before over the years and publishes four photographs: the Alcoholics Anonymous coin certifying three years of sobriety, a congratulatory card, the clear announcement “free of alcohol and drugs for 3 years” and finally a portrait, signed by Simone Arrighi, which shows her smiling, soft, finally at peace.

12 steps, one day at a time

«With the help of brothers and sisters and I’m making it through the 12 step program, one day at a time. And this lifestyle, in addition to being beautiful, is much easier to follow than I imagined”, writes the 48-year-old actress who made her debut in front of the camera at nine, in a television film. Then the big screen, over fifty titles, four as a director. Daughter of art — father Dario monument of horror cinema, mother Daria actress who passed away in 2020 — he immediately shone with his own light, despite his very difficult childhood, complicated family relationships, especially with the violent motheras he told in his autobiography published in 2021 for Piemme, Anatomy of a wild heart.

A life on a roller coaster

“I wouldn’t trade the hardest and worst day sober for the best day in use,” she explains in the post. And it’s not hard to imagine the roller coaster of these decades of great successes and great sorrows, Donatello’s Davids, the death of his sister Anna, two beloved children (Anna Lou and Nicola), the love of maturity Anthony Bourdain who committed suicide, the merciless accusations of not having been at her side to prevent it, and, before that, the harassment of Harvey Weinstein and Rob Cohen. A lot, too much even for a very strong woman like Asia, the little girl who went around the Prati neighborhood on skates or by bicycle, very free and very alone.

Thanks to his children

«The program works, it really works. I think different, I talk different, I dream different when sober. This is my face as an almost fifty-year-old who is finally serene”, she admits in her social message, where she also thanks Anna Lou, born 23 years ago from the relationship with Morgan, and Nicola, son of the director Michele Civetta, now fifteen. «Thank you to my children for supporting and loving me then and now, as I am learning to understand who I really am». The eldest daughter replies under the post: “Thank you for everything”, with two hearts. And her mother adds: «Thanks to you, for everything, absolutely everything». And in that indefinite pronoun there are many small fragments of well-defined everyday life, the dinners prepared together in the kitchen, the films seen on the sofa or at private screenings, the holidays, the mistakes, the things left unsaid, the hugs, the tears, the laughs.

Body pain

In one of her stories on Instagram, Asia Argento also published the page of a book that explains how the pain we feel is often just telling us to change: the body becomes a bridge between the deepest self and external reality. She had recognized the symptoms for some time. Buddhism helped her to be silent. And that silence created the conditions for his most important directorial testwith her as the protagonist of his life.

June 10, 2024

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