Farewell to Paolo Calissano: from Barbara D’Urso to Salvo Sottile, condolences on social media

A few hours after the news of the disappearance of Paolo Calissano, the 54-year-old actor found dead late in the evening of Thursday 30 December in his apartment in Balduina in Rome, his partner Fabiola Palese entrusts Instagram with her outburst against all those who are saying plague and horns about him for the purpose to obtain reflected visibility. “You are jackals, leave him alone at least now”, Palese writes as several faces from the world of entertainment join in grief for his passing, which could be linked to the administration of a mix of drugs that Calissano used to treat severe depression.

“We worked together for many months. Then your frailties took over and you got lost. In my memories you are the kind boy who on the set always had a smile for everyone “, writes Barbara D’Urso who, at the end of the nineties, shared the set of the fiction with the actor Doctor Giò. Just from D’Urso, in 2014, Paolo Calissano told of the depression and cocaine addiction with which he fought since the tragic death of the Brazilian dancer Ana Lucia Bandeira Bezerra, found dead in her apartment from an overdose. Sentenced to four years of imprisonment, in 2006 Calissano benefited from the pardon and served the rest of his sentence in a community for drug addicts. “Having many women around does not mean being loved. I’ve loved a lot, but I’m not sure I’ve ever been loved in return. Or maybe yes, but I didn’t realize it as I should have, “said the actor on that occasion, famous for playing the role of Bruno De Carolis in the soap To live.

In 2015, guest of the Maurizio Costanzo Show, Calissano then spoke of his professional rebirth linked to the world of writing, defining himself as a “new and serene man, motivated, calm “. “With this way of working I have put together all the experiences of my life, the good ones and the bad ones,” he said on that occasion. «The evil of living. Hi Paolo RIP », is, instead, the tweet written by the journalist Except Thin to remember it. The last appearance of Paolo Calissano on television dates back to 2018, protagonist of an episode of the Rai1 fiction Don’t tell my boss 2. At the cinema, however, we will see it in the film All is not lost, first work by Francesco Bellomo based on the play of the same name by Giuseppe Manfridi.