Paola Perego reveals: “When my son was a teenager I followed him to find out if he got drugs”

Paola Perego He is the protagonist of the new episode of Amateur momthe podcast of Diletta Leotta. During the interview, the presenter, 58, told her maternal side and the relationship with The children, Giulia and Riccardo, born from the first marriage to Andrea Carnevale. And he let himself go to unpublished revelations. “I hope my son don’t listen to this podcast because I swear to you that I never told anyone, not even to him,” he says before confessing what he did years ago, when his Riccardo was in the adolescence phase. “I followed him by two bodyguards to see if he took drugs” tells.

“He started going out on Saturday evening. At the time I worked in Mediaset and there was a security officer. ” The son does not notice anything because he was followed by “Two boys went with him to the famous Milvio bridge in Rome, who made me a crazy fear, and then followed him in the disco». The result? “He drank a beer and smoke a cigarette», Continues Paola Perego. Which assures: «If you feel it I am ruined. Even if it has now fallen into prescription ».

“I have always done the Easy but checking everything,” he says talking about motherhood. And, on the relationship with the children, it reveals that for a long time, wrong, he has set himself as “Wonder Woman: There are no problems, we are always cheerful, we are always good. Until one day a brilliant neuropsychiatrist, one who worked in Brazil, in favelas, said to me: “Remember that If she always shows herself, her children can never allow you to show sadness because they don’t know her. Her children must also know her for her fragility because in this way they too will be able to show their respective fragility “».

The fragility of Paola Perego are the panic attacks. The well -known TV has already revealed some time ago that it had suffered from it. And he wrote a book on his story, Behind the scenes of my fears. “Through the book they understood a series of my fragility and we talked about it,” he still says referring to his children. A book that she defines liberating: “When you are young, in your career, you think:” I have to please everyone “. With panic attacks I was what others wanted me to be ».

At that time the presenter He was able to work thanks to the drugs and the help of doctors. «I only did that, I left the house to work and that’s it, then I was closed inside the house. I worked both because at the beginning I had to maintain myself, and because I had a very strong sense of duty, “he explains. But he remembers his mood well: “Always muffled, mutual because these drugs also block emotions in addition to panic attacks. So they said I was cold, detached ». A dark period that he wanted to share with his audience and who finally left behind.