Marta Flavi, the horns and that lapse in style towards Maurizio Costanzo

What the life of public figures away from the spotlight is really like is a mystery that only very few people can unravel, and journalists are often not among them. In fact, the public image is one thing and another is what you do when the lights go out and the front door is locked: we don’t know if Maurizio Costanzo was a serial cheater, but we certainly know that talking about his misdeeds now that he’s no longer here is something quite jarring, given that the person concerned no longer has the opportunity to have his say on the matter. We don’t doubt that it was painful for Marta Flavi discover her then husband’s betrayal with Maria De Filippi on the phone – something both she and De Filippi herself said on several occasions, included in that beautiful episode of You start telling the story with Raffaella Carrà which we recommend you catch up on RaiPlay -, but giving an interview in which you shoot down a person who can no longer respond seems like a low blow both because that person does not have the ability to defend himself and because he does not have the opportunity to reply.

«I have never told my story publicly, not only out of elegance but also because I feared many things. Maurizio was a man of power so I kept my pain without ever talking about it on television or in newspapersbut since people understood how things had gone it wasn’t that important that I explained it”, said Marta Flavi in ​​an interview with Adnkronos calling itself the «empress of the cuckolds» and adding that after the end of his marriage he did everything to wear horns «with a certain elegance». The problem is not so much the declarations themselves but their timing, given that it would have been appropriate for them to arrive when Maurizio Costanzo was still alive and present to himself, endowed with that lucidity that he kept intact until his death.

Talking about it now causes a certain discomfort and, above all, a certain pain given that it would be appropriate to remove certain stones when the parties involved are ready to provide, as they should be, their version of the facts, always assuming they want to make it public. We repeat: we do not doubt the suffering that Marta Flavi may have felt during and after her marriage, but the fact that he chose to speak so explicitly right now, probably leaving a certain discomfort in those who have always been close to Maurizio Costanzo. Like Maria De Filippi and, above all, her children Gabriele, Saverio and Camilla, who have dealt with the loss with extreme discretion and who, probably, are now biting their tongue for all the things they would like to say about it but are holding back from saying.