“I only make this video once, then I go back to my life. I’m not looking for approval, I’m not looking for sympathy. I answer calmly and with facts to the questions I read everywhere“: so he speaks Antonio Medugnothe twenty-seven-year-old Neapolitan model and tiktoker, former competitor of Big Brother VIPwhich he reported a few days ago Alfonso Signorininow under investigation for sexual assault and extortion. Medugno answers some questions that appear in the reel posted on Instagram, the first “why did you report it after four years?”: “Because for years I tried to bury it and because when you are involved in dynamics of shame and fear you often don’t report it immediately, you close yourself off, you blame yourself, and you fear not being believed“. The model adds that “many people, too many, postpone reporting these events” and explains: “In those four years I did therapy and tried to move forward”.
Still: “I tried to protect myself legally when the situation became public and I understood that silence would destroy me.” When asked about the decision to move forward even though the content of the messages he exchanged with Signorini was clear, he replies: “Because in that period I didn’t have the clarity that I have today. There were messages yes and in hindsight I recognize that they were ambiguous messages and that perhaps I should have put a boundary much earlier. But when you’re young, when you have a lot of pressure on you, when you’re afraid of burning out on job opportunities, you don’t always think clearly.” And in the long video, the model and tiktoker also talks about his former manager Alessandro Piscopo: “I trusted him (…), they had manipulated me into thinking that it was right like this. I didn’t go there to get favors or to have sex, I went there thinking of clarifying, of demonstrating what kind of person I was.”
Meanwhile, the contours of Signorini’s defense are emerging, assisted by Daniela Missaglia – unanimously considered a champion in his field – and by Domenico Aiello who, interviewed by Corriere della Seracomes down very hard by defining the reconstruction carried out up to now as “foolish”, explains that he is not at all worried and partially anticipates the strategy: “We will demonstrate in the appropriate forums that this subject is used to presenting himself in any form in order to achieve success in environments such as television ones, but he is known to have done so in the past even outside Mediaset contexts”.
