Behind the paparazzi photos of Francesca Pascale on a boat with Paola Turci there was apparently a politician from Forza Italia who “wanted to make me a problem”. She is the ex-partner of Silvio Berlusconi who launches the accusation in the interview with Belve with Francesca Fagnani, Pascale’s first ever on TV. Guest of the last episode of this season on Rai2, Pascale talks about those shots published when the relationship with the founder of Forza Italia was at the end: «Those photos were taken by a person from Forza Italia close to the sovereignist area, who he has always particularly hated me,” says Pascale. Regarding that alleged plot against her, she does not name names but explains that the paparazzi «were sent by a person very close to Matteo Salvini who wanted to give the entire Forza Italia package to Salvini. I tolerated this very badly.”
The plan to weaken Berlusconi
That operation was aimed against her, Pascale reiterates, with the sole aim of breaking out a case and weakening Berlusconi: «There was a very specific plan to make me a problem to be solved and therefore she followed me and they broke the rules of morality to hurt me.” When the shots were published, Pascale bluntly admits: “I felt violated.”
The “non” marriage between Berlusconi and Marta Fascina
Fagnani reminds Pascale that she was said to ask Berlusconi to marry her every day. Which then only happened when the former prime minister got engaged to the Forza Italia parliamentarian Marta Fascina: «No, not at all, I never felt the desire to get married – explains Pascale – also because then maybe he would marry me and it was fake and frankly, rather than fake, nothing is better.” At the “non” wedding between Berlusconi and Fascina there was no invitation for Cav’s ex-partner. But she herself had declared that if she had gone there, she would have smoked a joint: “Yes, I would have liked to smoke a joint… Berlusconi was lucid, he never did such foolish things with me.”
The relationship with the father
The interview touches even more intimate chords, when Fagnani asks Pascale what her childhood was like, with a father she describes as violent and unaffectionate: «My childhood was happy, even if like all little girls I was also in love my father’s. But the trust that a little girl has towards her father has been deceived, betrayed, mortified by his violent and disaffected way of treating us.” Fagnani asks if there was real violence: «There were violent attitudes – Pascale clarifies – but I prefer to keep it to myself». Certainly today, Pascale admits that her relationship with her father “does not exist”.
