During the episode of Sunday In of the April 28broadcast on Rai1 and hosted by Mara Venierthe actor arrives at the studio Kabir Bediready to talk about his career and private life; Lory Del Santowhich recalls the great love for the singer-songwriter Eric Clapton and the pain of the loss of his children; Roberto Bollein the studio to present the new program Long live the dance; While Leo Gassmann presents his latest single Take That; And Adriano Giannini and Riccardo Scamarcio promote the film Six brothersreleased in Italian cinemas on May 1st.
The recap of the April 28th episode of Domenica In
The first guest of the episode is Kabir Bedi, known for his role as Sandokan in the 1976 television drama directed by Sergio Sollima. Asking him questions, in addition to Mara Venier, there are also Barbara Alberti, Rossella Erra, Katia Ricciarelli and Candida Morvillo. Between one anecdote and another, the actor focuses on the darkest and most painful period of his life, when in 1997 the son Siddharth Bedi committed suicide at just 25 years old. “He was very kind, a good man, never violent. He suffered from depressive schizophrenia and for three years no one really understood what was happening to him, despite various diagnoses. After an accident in Canada he became violent and I took him to Los Angeles for treatment. I wanted to save him but then I failed: he took his own life, and it was the most painful moment of my life. He was very intelligent but he lost hope and performed the deed after an argument with me. In fact, in the book I wrote a comparison between a father who wants to prevent his son from doing this kind of action. I feel guilty, because I think I could have done something to change his mind. I don’t want people to lose hope because medicines are much more effective now, whereas once they didn’t control some effects. He took the medicine and felt drunk, so he was better without taking it. I am responsible because I had to check that he used it. I tell everyone who lives with a schizophrenic person not to give up, because they are not alone“. The actor explains that he tried to overcome the drama through meditation: “Since then I have decided to change my life“.
Kabir Bedi is married to Parveen Dusanji, thirty years younger than him and mother of Siddharth: “I believe in marriage. I always hoped for a happy relationship and now I have it“, he says about the relationship with his life partner. But the actor has three ex-wives and during the episode he explains the reasons why it didn’t work out with other women (even though he maintained excellent relationships with all of them): “With the first ex-wife we gradually separated, I left the second, while the third wanted to live in London and I in India“. Further, the actor tells about an interview what he should have done to the Beatles and it didn’t work out right away because “the manager told me that he would do the interview himself, but shortly before he felt ill, was sweating, had trouble breathing“. At this point Mara Venier bursts out laughing (“But did he have stomach problems?“, he asks him), unaware of the ending of the story: “He wasn’t well, among other things six months later he died“. The presenter stops her laughter and says: “Oh my God, poor man“. Eventually Bedi managed to interview all the band members: “They were very kind and nice, they each gave me an interview“.
Lory Del Santo (repetitive) is told by Mara Venier
After the hosted a Beasts, Lory Del Santo enter the studio of Sunday In to talk about love and career: “As a child I wrote down my reflections for the future, because I had to make it on my own. When you are born into a family with economic difficulties you just have to understand what is happening. I didn’t know how to make babies. Mum never believed me, if I told the truth she would beat me, and so I thought the right way to stay calm was to hide everything. I was very happy, my life was a school: you learn, you listen, you observe. I couldn’t complain about anything to my mother because she was poor, she did what she could. You have to be happy with what you have. Leaving home was my secret dream, I wanted to discover the world and I liked cinema. My mother only let me free if there was the possibility of earning something and so I made up an excuse to go to Rome, at the invitation of an actor, and I left for two days“. She also mentions the unknown man who accompanied her to school when she was little: “I don’t remember his name, but I wouldn’t say it even if I remembered it, because he has a family, but good and wonderful men exist, you just have to find them. There are men who say many things, but then don’t keep their promises. Like someone who says they want a child…“, says the guest. Mara Venier, understanding the subject the showgirl is referring to (it’s not that difficult given that she said the same things to Beasts last Tuesday), interrupts her: “Eric Clapton!“.
“It was a thwarted love because the first dream, the first child, was involved. We wanted it, there was enthusiasm. Then one day I was sick because I was pregnant and it kept getting worse over time. It was Christmas, he asked me: ‘What’s wrong with you?’. We had to leave, but I didn’t go, while he did because he had to do a lot of things. Then he went back, but by then he had changed his mind about the child. He disappeared for six months, then his agent called me to ask me how much money I wanted to close the matter… One might think about it, but I replied: ‘Do you see this number you called? Forget about it’. Then Eric wrote me a tearful letter in the sixth month of pregnancy, where he also talked about the baby, and afterwards he came to visit me. When he left again the letter, the one I reread every evening, was no longer there: it represented proof that he was Conor’s father. When the baby was born, everything changed again: in London he got me a house, booked the hospital and told me: ‘Anyway, Princess Diana also had her children here, so she must be fine for Force‘” says the host.
Lory Del Santo talks about the pain caused by loss of his children, of the suicide of Lorensuffering from anhedonia, and how she survived so much suffering: “I lay on the ground for hours. At a certain point I told myself that I couldn’t stay like this for my whole life and then I got up. When you get up once you are capable of doing it again. My family didn’t help me: if people don’t understand you, it’s better for them not to speak, otherwise they risk hurting. In my opinion they should teach in school how to understand diseases. When you don’t have a culture in this field it’s difficult to understand. I had sensed that my son had a problem, he was a loner but extremely intelligent. No one had ever suggested to me that he might have a serious problem, he was too still. There are things that are understood before and others later and it is always useful to know more about what can happen to us. But when something is irreversible you just have to resign yourself. I thought that children were the most beautiful thing in the world for both parents and instead they said ‘hello’ to me. I did everything I could, but when there are no symptoms there are no solutions. If I had known now, I would have lived badly anyway, because it would have happened anyway“.
By doing a balance of his lifethe showgirl states: “I lived my life and not that of others, because you always try to chase someone and I too happened to think of being in a golden cage but feeling good, having everything I needed, but it’s better to fly free in the forest and see the world. I believe that Marco loves me, but on his part there isn’t that love for which he would give his life for me. It’s passion. I think it’s better to have less love than total love, because then you risk making absurd mistakes“. In the meantime we witness a short discussion linked to the size of the breasts of the two women in the studio, during which Lory explains that to increase her size she uses padded bras and Mara Venier comments: “I don’t need them because I don’t know where to put them anymore“. The discussion is carried on at length – with the presenter approaching the guest to better understand what she means – and we still ask ourselves why.
Roberto Bolle at Domenica In
Roberto Bolle tells his story passion for dance, the years of solitude in Milan and the sacrifices made to achieve his goal: “Dance can reach everyone and be loved and appreciated by anyone. Bringing it to the streets with OnDance is of great interest because it brings people closer to this art. Any form of art has the strength to be understood by every person, it’s a bit like uniting, creating a bond between them and dance. Mine is a path that starts from afar and over time has become structured and become increasingly ambitious. Little by little you dare to do that little bit more. I had a reputation that allowed me to do other things, until Sanremo 2016 which opened the doors of television to me. And then came OnDance. I realized I could do more than dance in the theater. You don’t have to stay in your comfort zone but dare. On the one hand you want to test yourself, on the other there is the risk of challenge. The first years at La Scala I missed the daily affection and growing up in the family, because in Milan I was alone. But what you overcome with will and pain then serves you, it makes you grow faster and in our profession this is important. Then dancing for Queen Elizabeth and the Pope was truly a dream, they were incredible emotions. Dance made me the person I am now, if I hadn’t made so many sacrifices, going beyond my limits, I wouldn’t be the same man. I limited transgressions and romantic escapes“.
