We re-propose the interview with Sabrina Salerno, one of the most read of 2022, in which she spoke about her marriage to Enrico Monti. Him: «The photos of her on Instagram? Sometimes I take them. She also took her make-up in the middle of nature »
We re-propose here one of the most read interviews of 2022, the one with Sabrina Salerno and her husband, Enrico Monti.
“No one would have bet a penny on us. Not even our friends », she admits sitting next to her at a table at the Golf Villa Condulmer in Mogliano Veneto. Yet it’s been thirty years since they discovered they love each other, sixteen since they are husband and wife, eighteen since the birth of their son. And it is the greatest success of Sabrina Salerno
54 years old, the sex symbol of the Nineties who survived herself and successes of twenty million copies, a tenacious and profound woman who for the first time she agrees to talk next to the man with whom she started a family much loved and desired (after a childhood without her father, who recognized her when she was 45). He is Henry Monti60 years old, entrepreneur.
Tell me from the beginning.
Enrico: «They asked me to meet her for a new musical project. At the time I was a record company, I had a recording studio where Vasco Rossi, Shade, Simply Red recorded… So I went to a concert at the Rovigo stadium and we had dinner with others, 31 years ago. She cried all the time, she had seemed desperate to me ».
Sabrina: «I was! I was working in a madhouse!”
Enrico: «Then I witnessed her incredible transformation on stage and I thought: ‘I would like to work with her’».
When did you realize you were in love?
Sabrina: «A year later, when we started working together. I immediately realized that there was something and that it was important».
Enrico: “Me too, but I had to pretend nothing happened: I had recently married and had a son a few months old.”
Sabrina: «Well, I was engaged too. But you don’t explain love with logic. I had seen saving love in him».
Was he a fan of hers?
Enrico: «No, my approach has always been that of a record company. I recognized the value of Boysa masterpiece of its kind. But I was interested in the potential: I loved other songs we made together later.”
It took you a while to get married in 2006. Your son was already two years old.
Sabrina: «He told me that we would never get married and we would not have children…».
Enrico: «Wait a moment: mine was a painful separation, I didn’t have a constructive dialogue with my ex-wife. I had a son, Andrea, now 31 years old, whom I saw with great difficulty».
What relationship do you have now?
Sabrina: “Nice.”
Enrico: «You were very good at never wanting to take the place of your mother».
Sabrina: «For me, children come first. If she had told me that I was more important than Andrea, I would have been disappointed. Sure, it took a while before we got ours. But after 10 years I looked in the mirror: “Why do I have to give up being a mother out of fear of her?” ».
When you found out Luca Maria was coming, what was your reaction?
Enrico: «My tragicomedy. After having endured Sabrina’s torture because we had been trying for six months and nothing happened, one morning she came out of the bathroom and said to me in a very serious tone: “I’m pregnant” (she imitates her, ed)”.
Sabrina: «But you’re crazy! I didn’t use that tone!”
Enrico: «You didn’t say: “Honey, I’m pregnant!”».
Sabrina: «You were shocked! And then, sorry, is it more serious that she didn’t say love to you or the fact that you didn’t speak to me all day afterwards?”
Enrico: «My wife is a multi-faceted person: she has wonderfully beautiful parts and unconstructive moments in which she sees everything as negative. I was worried that she might affect our son. Instead I was wrong because she is a perfect mother ».
Sabrina: «I didn’t want to make my son pay for mine up and down. I don’t consider myself an exemplary mother, but I wanted to do my best to give Luca Maria the invisible tools for him to feel like a loved man. If one feels loved, he has already done Bingo ».
And when was he born?
Enrico: «There I immediately understood my son’s character».
Would be?
Enrico: «We were at the hospital for the cesarean. When he was born, Sabrina began to sing him theape Maia».
Sabrina: «Wait, let me explain! The midwife repeated: “he IS a boy!”. But I didn’t feel it. Then he started crying and that’s why I started singing him theape Maia: to calm him down!».
Enrico: «Then we went to take a bath. In the water he immediately calmed down, he was a little angel. But when they took him out he started screaming again and the midwife said he was possessed: he had his mother’s temper.’
Your strength and weakness.
Enrico: «Sabrina’s greatest strength is that she is a fantastic mother. And then the ambivalence of her character: on the one hand she has tenacity and strength of character out of the ordinary, on the other a very great fragility. This double sided is fascinating. The flaw is that she is not affectionate: she is unaffective. If I have a work concern, she doesn’t tell me: give strength, you’ll see that she’ll be fine … ».
Sabrina: «His merit is to be noble of soul, even too much! It’s her attitude in life: she sees only the beautiful in people, while I’m more cynical. The flaw is that when he gets something into his head you don’t make him change it.’
Are you jealous?
Enrico: «If I said I’m not at all it would be bullshit, but I’m not one to make a scene, otherwise I’d go crazy. The whole world would like to have a relationship with her, of any kind. What do I do: kill everyone? I don’t allow myself to be jealous.”
Not even for the photos he posts on Instagram?
“No. I do some of them! She has great physicality, it is a fact: she is one of the few women of her age who can afford it ».
And you, Sabrina, are you jealous?
«I was a lot, especially the first ten years. Once he took a big risk, don’t remind me otherwise I’ll fight again. I can only say that I found messages on his cell phone that I didn’t like and I threw everything at his head: I destroyed a bedroom ».
The most beautiful day?
Enrico: «The birth of Luca Maria».
Sabina: «And our marriage. I cried like a fountain, it had become very important for me to get married. When she saw me in that state, she said: “But if I knew you cared so much I would have married you sooner!”. I would have killed him.”
Your secret?
Enrico: «There is great respect, it is never a trivial relationship and it evolves continuously».
Sabrina: «We are not a Mulino Bianco couple, but we don’t remain passive in difficulties: we always try to resolve things».
We close with the image of one of your happy moments.
Enrico: «The experience of the Via degli Dei, the path that connects the center of Bologna to that of Florence. A week in the middle of nature with our son: we slept in hostels. I knew that for her it was tough, she had even brought her make-up in her backpack!».
Sabrina: «I needed them for the photos! That experience will remain with me because it reminds me that I do things with these two that I never do in my life…”.
January 6, 2023 (change January 6, 2023 | 09:40)
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