Francesca Rettondini was a guest last night on Stories of women at the crossroads, on Rai Due. Chatting with Monica Setta she talked about loves of his lifestarting with the current partner, obviously passing through Alberto Castagnawhat remains to this day his greatest and unforgettable love.
The first words were for his current partner, of whom Francesco Rettondini speaks thus: “I’ve been with Rosario Petix. We met on a set, then we went out after a few years. It was a low budget film, then after three years they called us all back and we were all different. We had to close this film and I fell for it or maybe he fell for it. He never asked me to marry him.” Among those who asked for his hand there is obviously Alberto Castagna: “He did it in front of my mother and my sister. My mother already had Alzheimer’s and for me it was the most beautiful journey of hers, I was very close to her, we exchanged roles”.
FRANCESCA RETTONDINI: “I AM A WILD…”
Francesca Rettondini continued with her story a curious anecdote: “I am a savage, I have a particular character. There was this man who had been courting me for a very long time, we were having lunch in the center of Rome, he told me that he would bring me a gift, then he took a rose and gave it to me with a languid look. I told him I was allergic to roses and then I ate it.”
Again on Alberto Castagna: “There’s no reason to forget it, I’m convinced that we have to carry the people we lived with with us, it’s not a burden, I don’t want to forget. The first time we met? He was at an audition, I wasn’t taken, he perhaps had love at first sight because then he looked for me and found me, his call was strong. My agent at the time brought him a book with many actresses and when he saw this photo he never left me.”
FRANCESCA RETTONDINI: “I SUFFERED SO MUCH FOR ALBERTO CASTAGNA…”
There was any obstacles in this love? “Well the prejudice of those around me, they told me I was a family wrecker. It was a great love and it ended for a reason we all know.” But what was her main desire in those years? “The culmination of this feeling was in everyday life, being together, I never felt the need to have a child or get married, I believe that these things arise together”.
“Do I miss a child? Sometimes yes and sometimes no, sometimes I say it’s better this way, for example when you struggle, struggle or have dark moments… other times I admire and envy these women who have these little children who maybe look like them and I miss that.” Francesca Rettondini concluded by speaking again about Alberto Castagna: “Hor suffered a lot but life goes on only with smiles.”
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