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Laura Torrisi: “Endometriosis made me fear not having children”

«Getting in and out of the operating room is destabilizing. I have been opened and closed so many times that now I can no longer undergo so many operations ». To say it is Laura Torrisi who, guest of very true, previews the book PS Always write to me through which he retraces the ordeal he had to face after the diagnosis of endometriosis occurred in 2009: «It is a truly disabling chronic disease, both psychologically and physically. When I was on the set of the fiction The honor and the respect I took up to seven painkillers a day. I was struggling to make it to the end of the day ».

An insidious disease that still affects her life today and that Laura faces openly, sharing on social networks the hardest moments of his coexistence with his pathology. Like the last New Year, spent in a hospital bed: «It was tough because, when they diagnosed it, it was already in an advanced stage. I’ve had some bad times, even though I didn’t get depressed. I didn’t know if I could have children and this terrified me most of all. Then, my daughter Martina arrived and I found the energy to face the rest ».

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When Silvia Toffanin who asks her if she has ever been helped psychologically, Torrisi confesses: “In the darkest moments I asked for psychological help because, as much as family and friends may try to understand, only those who have experienced such pain can fully understand it ». Another theme that is dear to the actress is undoubtedly that of violence: «Violence takes on different forms. There is not only the one made of blows, but also the psychological one. My life has been studded with people of this type ». And he concludes: «I have learned my lesson. Now I’m fine by myself too. Maybe the right man will come, but if he doesn’t, it’s not the end of the world. “

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