All the pain of Ilaria D’Amico for the death of her sister Catia: “It breaks my breath”

Last September Ilaria D’Amico, 47 years old, he lost his beloved older sister Catia, killed a 59 years old give one tumor intestine diagnosed in January 2019. A drama about which the presenter has broken the silence only now, in tears, in the living room of very true: «I can’t talk about it much. It breaks my breath. She was my point of reference. I would have given her part of me, organs of me. The disease slowly led her to fall asleep, without pain and without pain therapy.

I consider it a reward for a woman who has always been so good ».

Between silences and tears, Ilaria explained that it was Catia’s death that made her say goodbye to football after 23 years. To start a new adventure in information. «It had been a while since I wanted to change, Catia gave me the push to really do it. When I was touring hospitals with her, I felt the urge to deal with service issues, to go back to telling what we are today. So when Sky’s proposal for a prime time event arrived, everything took shape ».

Since Catia died, Ilaria feels “more fragile“. And different: “I feel that she has become a part of me. Today I give less importance to how I dress, I am moved to think of his dignity and confidentiality. This loss made me redefine priorities: the work it is, but the need to look after my family is stronger“. An extended family which includes the son Pietro, had by ex-husband Rocco Attisani, and the little one Leopoldo Mattia, 5 years old in January, fruit of love with Gigi Buffon to whom she has been linked since 2013. They are also part of the “team” David lee e Louis Thomas, the children that Gigi had from first wife Alena Seredova.

But Ilaria is not only dedicated to her “new family”. Since Catia is gone, the presenter she is “very worried” about her mother, over eighty, who now lives with Alessandra, her sister’s daughter: “I call her every day at sunset, the most melancholy moment of the day».

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