Guest of Verissimo, Carlotta Ferlito spoke about her mother’s illness: “She has ALS, we took her to a hospice. Seeing it go away day after day is the greatest pain.” The former gymnast then recalled the abuse he suffered during her career: “They are traumas that you carry within yourself. They told me I was worthless and I was fat as a pig.”
Carlotta Ferlito she was a guest of Verissimo in the April 28 episode. The former Olympic gymnast spoke to Silvia Toffanin about the difficult moment she is going through due to mother’s illness. Then he remembered theand physical and psychological humiliation suffered when she was training, which led her to stop her training gymnast career after the second Olympics.
Carlotta Ferlito talks about her mother’s illness
“My mother isn’t well and she won’t get better”, Carlotta Ferlito said about the difficult family moment she is experiencing. His mother suffers from ALS and recently it was transferred to a hospice:
We are trying to accompany her towards her end, towards what will be another life, in the most serene way possible. When they put her in her room, they took us out of her and she said ‘don’t treat me like a fool, don’t act like I’m a puppet, I want to be conscious’. I think the greatest pain is seeing your mother’s face fade away, I am experiencing this day after day.
Carlotta is trying to be strong in going through her mother’s illness and, like her father, prefers not to talk openly about her pain: “Dad and I have a similar character, we don’t express much.” A few months ago, his father also had to deal with a serious health problem, which has now been resolved:
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Last October he had a heart attack, I took him to the emergency room, even though until the end he continued to say that he was fine and didn’t want to go. Now he’s fine. He didn’t express anything about his difficulties and even now he is trying to do so.
The abuse suffered during her gymnastics career and eating disorders
Carlotta Ferlito also told Silvia Toffanin about the abuse suffered in the years in which she was an athlete of the national artistic gymnastics team. It was about eepisodes of humiliation to physical and psychological level:
I confided in my mother, she has always been close to me from a personal and sporting point of view. My parents never questioned my words. Once, during a training session, a slap flew and my father took a flight from Catania to come to Milan. At a certain point I didn’t get along well with a coach and there was a certain amount of aggression towards me. I’m talking about abuse, words that manage to put together what happened.
The former gymnast says that she was told phrases like “non it goesnothing there” or “six grassa like a pig”. Words that left a profound mark on her: “They are traumas that you carry inside you”. At the time she chose not to report for fear of “to be excluded”. Only once he had made his second Olympics did he denounce: “I have never regretted doing it. My skeleton in the closet is not having chosen the end of my career“. Having put aside her years in the gym, Carlotta Ferlito began to suffer from eating disorders:
When I stopped training I always felt a little less, I was insecure. For a while I didn’t eat anymore. Inside me I felt loved and appreciated only as a gymnast, it’s as if I had had an identity crisis, a moment of down.
