Fedez: “After the tumor my relationship with money changed”

He hadn’t talked about his illness since he had toast based on “pancreatic enzymes” with his wife Chiara Ferragni. In that video it was ironic, but today when Fedez took up the subject in his podcast Wild Moss he did it in serious terms. And unexpected too. “The disease has changed my relationship with money”explained the rapper, who on 23 March was operated on to remove a neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas: six hours under the knife and a lot of fear.

“Before you have the tumor, I had a money goal, it was two hundred million, ”he revealed. “Now I don’t care anymore: it is a goal that now it no longer makes senseand do you know why it doesn’t make sense? “, he added, addressing the rapper Lazza, guest of the episode,” because you assume that you get to 200, then you always want more, then it’s 300, then 400. Then you get to the billion and in any case you realize that that is not the end“.

The disease, in other words, made Fedez understand that money is not an end but it can be a means: to make investments, to spend in companies, but above all to do good. And even if he doesn’t like to advertise his too much philanthropic activitiesis known to all as much as i Ferragnez they are spent in beneficial actionseven during the toughest months of pandemicthat is, before Fedez’s illness exploded in their life. After that, however, the commitment increased and focused on those who find themselves in equally troubling situations, cannot count on themselves economic conditions.

And in fact, after the pancreas operation, the rapper launched the Fedez ETS Foundation (the acronym stands for Ente del Terzo Sector) «una philanthropic realitynon-profit, which operates on three founding pillars: the socialthe solidarity and the public utility“. An institution, it was explained at the time of presentation, whose commitment is «aimed at the management of more urgent discomfort problems concerning, for example, minors, minorities, people in conditions of marginalization, poverty or disease. Which he will join the continuation of the commitment to support the sectors of music (and, more generally, of the show), of the cultureofart and of sport“.

The foundation’s first act was to launch a fundraiser to support Togin favor of the rehabilitation of children with complex neurological diseases. Then an insulated van was donated to the Red Cross to bring medicines to the war-affected Ukrainian population. Concrete deeds, and good use of money.

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