“What a disaster, I can’t see well anymore.” Francesco Chiofalo, a former Temptation Island participant known as “Lenticchio”, is in despair after being rushed to hospital with an eye problem. The 35-year-old had undergone a delicate surgical operation, ring keratopigmentation, which involves applying a new pigment into the cornea to change the color of the eyes. Following the operation, which usually lasts about an hour and is performed with local anesthesia, something would have gone wrong. And Chiofalo himself tells it from his social channels, where he keeps fans updated on his daily events. In an Instagram story he published a video showing him on a stretcher while being transported by ambulance to the emergency room. Then, emergency hospitalization.
«I can’t see well, I want to throw myself down»
The former face of Temptation Island, the television program where a group of tempters and temptresses try to put other people’s relationships in crisis, had a CT scan. «I want to throw myself down, I’m very nervous, agitated. What a mess. Darnit. I can’t see very well,” he said in a social video. And from his profile Threads added: «This evening was really bad, I feel terrible and I was hospitalized urgently. I’m very down in the dumps. I hope this will be resolved as soon as possible and that everything will be fine.”
Eye surgery: from brown to blue
Chiofalo had decided to change the color of his eyes from brown to blue, sparking quite a bit of controversy among users who underlined the danger of an intervention that was anything but necessary. Intimidated by the criticism, the 35-year-old had in fact waited several days before showing himself to the ferocious people of social media. Then, a few days later, he showed himself satisfied with his intervention. The satisfaction lasted very little, however, due to the illness he suffered. Lenticchio did not specify that the trip to the emergency room was due to his eye surgery, but his statements and the context certainly make one think of that. Lenticchio was already known in the news for having undergone an operation to remove a brain tumor, shortly after his participation in the program that made him famous.
