Andrea Rizzoli: “Mom Eleonora Giorgi fell asleep holding me in one hand and my brother Paolo in the other”

ANDLeonora Giorgiwho died at 71 years after fighting pancreas cancer for a year and a half, is “Traveled quietly at 9.15 am on Monday, Massimo Ciavarro was with her And he called us: My brother Paolo and I ran to the hospitalshe waited for us and He fell asleep holding me in one hand and he in the other». As Andrea Rizzolithe firstborn of the actress, tells in an interview with Corriere della Sera The last hours of the mother. Adding: “We knew it would happen, we were aware of how the journey would end.”

In the last few days, Andrea continues, “the doctors had increased Fentanyl and morphine, which at such high doses leave you in the embrace of sleep. By now the tumor had extended to the lungs and the brain was not always well oxygenated. The last moment of lucidity together was Saturday morning». And that morning, together, they have “watched herons out of the windowmom managed to look out. For days he had ate only the fennel salad, oranges and olives that prepared Paolo and the carrot, apple and orange extract I was doing: for us it was a nice way to take care of her, because we could not do anything else to help her. But On Saturday he asked us for smoked salmon and we brought it to him». Eleonora, tells the eldest son, he “kept his black humor until the end. Every now and then someone sent me indignantly of the memes that ironized the race between her and the Pope on who would have died before. AND She joked about it: “We hope that I am pope’s not stealing the scene“»

The actress last February, revealing that for a few days she had been hospitalized in a clinic in Rome where they were submitting her to pain therapy, she had reiterated that the love of the two children was the strength in such difficult moments, Andrea Rizzoli and Paolo Ciavarro, And the rest of his family: «On Valentine’s Day My daughter -in -law clitched came with my beloved nephew gabriele, three years old. They told him the grandmother is in the hotel: We freed red balls in the air ». Now Andrea Rizzoli has revealed that the little Gabriele still did not say that his grandmother died: «And I’m afraid it will be difficult to do it. The day before yesterday He asked if we could go to visit the grandmother in the hotel».

Giorgi’s funeral is scheduled for March 5, in public, in the artists’ church. The burning room, however, was private: «We decided it together. As much as the audience he is like a family, we didn’t want to exhibit his body to strangers ». After, Eleonora “he asked to be cremated. We would like to get the pantry for Leave the urn in the sanctuary of the Madonna del Sorboin Campagnano, a place dear to me and Paul. If it weren’t possible, we will disperse ashes in the Dolomites, whom she loved a lot».