Giovanna Botteri at Corriere retraces her long career as a correspondent for Rai. The journalist returned to Rome after the announcement of her retirement, but she too will not say goodbye to her profession. She announced that she will return to TV on another network, then the memory of the past to which the death of Maria Grazia Cutuli is linked.
After a long career as a correspondent for the Rai, Giovanna Botteri she returned to Italy, to her home in Rome, ready for her new life retired. As he already specified, his return would not be a definitive retirement from work: in a long interview with Corriere, he talked about himself, his love for his daughter, his ex Lanfranco Pace and also his future. The television audience will see it again “a new network”that is to say A7in the program In other words by Massimo Gramellini. “It was a natural choice”the comment.
Returning home to Rome after 25 years abroad
After 25 years Giovanna Botteri returned to her home in Rome, where she returned to live. After New York, Beijing and Paris, the journalist, now retired, told the Corriere that she felt like “divorcees returning to the market“. She left her heart in Sarajevo, she explained, recalling that at that time she was the only young woman with a daughter, “a different element of the classic group of war correspondents“. It was a very strong experience that left a profound mark on her: “So strong that it is impossible for it to leave you unscathed. You leave your heart, because you have shared terrible things with so many people”. Helping her during that period with her daughter Sarah was her father, and the thought of having a family in her home helped her to be clear-minded. Once Sarah asked her to return and her request saved her.
I was in Afghanistan with Maria Grazia Cutuli (journalist killed near Kabul, ed.). The evening has me called my Sarah crying and I didn’t join Maria Grazia’s convoy, I took a car to the airport, to return to Rome. AND I saved myselflife is amazing.
He spoke about Covid from Beijing, an experience he recalls “so much loneliness and anguish“, before arriving in Paris where he also proposed several tales of customs.
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The love for her daughter Sarah and her ex Lanfranco Pace
Her daughter Sarah was born from the relationship with Lanfranco Pace, who died last November at 76, from whom she separated. Giovanna Botteri recalled their relationship, saying that it was their diversity that united them: “I don’t really know what brought us together, I think love is this: you don’t understand, there’s no reason, but it happens. Sarah was born from our love and she is the most beautiful thing. The story was very complicated. I returned to Rome to work with little Sarah. I went back and forth with Paris, then I couldn’t take it anymore. He began to collaborate with Il Foglio and his period of “rethinking” began. Sarah also needed to understand. But I don’t deny anything“. Absent from social media, he has never given weight to the criticisms received for his physical appearance: “Who cares about hair. Girls love each other just as you are.”
