«With the tumor I thought about death. I lost a son, I felt finished. Never slept with a man out of interest”

Samantha DeGrenet remains one of the most recognizable faces on Italian television. Even today, at 53, when you put that black box aside that gave you so much luck. She, with her curly hair and oriental features, made millions of Italians fall in love with her.

After her first marriage to Pierfrancesco Micara, a young man from Roma’s elite, she lined up a series of celebrities: from Leonardo Pieraccioni to Pippo Inzaghi, to her flirtation with Francesco Totti. Her current partner is Luca Barbato, married twice and father of her only son Brando.

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The first marriage at 20 years old with Pierfrancesco Micara. «I would have separated on my honeymoon. We were two guys who fell in love for the first time, I got pregnant and we were very happy, but while I was preparing the wedding, I lost the baby. I should have stopped and thought about it better, but it was such a pain that I felt finished, certain that only he could understand”. And instead, after realizing that they were too different, “I took it upon myself to leave”, she told the Corriere. Samantha has had many men, but «I have never slept with a man out of interest. I was, in hindsight, even excessively rigid,” she says. On Pieraccioni he explains that «I loved him so much that I refused cinema proposals out of fear that someone would say that I was with him out of interest. In hindsight, I was a fool. And I refused football programs when I was with Pippo Inzaghi: never mind that anyone thought I was being helped.”

And Totti? «I went there for dinner, on a boat with friends. He courted me, but I was leaving my relationship with Filippo and I didn’t want other footballers.” She married her husband Luca Barbato, divorced and married him again. It is he who gave her her only son, Brando Barbato. He was the one she thought about the most when she discovered her breast cancer. «I had already made the film that I was dying and Brando graduated and I wasn’t there, he got married and I wasn’t there…».

Then, a particular anecdote, breakfast in bed with Gianni Agnelli and Luca Montezemolo. «I was 21 years old, I was engaged to Giovanni Malagò. Oh well, girlfriend is a big word. He had left early. The Lawyer and Luca, who I knew, arrive and I find them in the room with the breakfast tray. An absurd situation.”

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