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Sanremo 2021, Antonella Ferrari’s monologue: “I’m not multiple sclerosis”

A long list of symptoms, fatigue, tremors, diplopia, blurred vision, back pain. “Here, doctor, these are my medical records: I have done a lot of tests. You understand, I’m tired of wandering around, all these medical luminaries in the end they all say I’m crazy. I spent twenty years wandering, what should I do? Do I have to take all the exams again? ». Antonella Ferrari, actress, began placidly, a monologue on the disease recited at the Ariston, standing in the middle of the stage.

Then, a scream. “I want to know”.

Antonella Ferrari, in the red dress and the colored crutch, shouted at everyone and no one, giving voice to her torment. To what was it when his illness, the multiple sclerosis, it still didn’t have a name. “So, you have discovered my enemy. Why all this time? »Asked Ferrari, again placidly. “Fear, Doctor? I’m not afraid. I am relieved. I know that my new life begins today, a life in the light of the sun. Without fear, without hiding. From today, I will stop being afraid of fear, it will just be meHe said, in a moving account of what it means to feel and not know, to lose control of your body, without a doctor, an exam, something being able to say why.

Antonella Ferrari, with extraordinary crudeness, returned a real dimension to the disease, then freeing herself from it. “Thank you,” she told Amadeus, “Because being here is a breath of fresh air for an actress who hasn’t worked for a long time. I am not multiple sclerosis. I’m Antonella Ferrari ».

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