The monologue by Giorgia Soleri, Damiano dei Måneskin’s girlfriend, on vulvodynia

After being summoned a little everywhere mainly because of Coralinethe song that Damiano David dedicated to her and that led him to be moved live during the first evening of the Sanremo Festival, Giorgia Soleri breaks the silence and decides to go as a guest on television to face head-on the question linked to the disease with which he has lived for some time: the vulvodynia. It does it to Toned, the delicious Rai2 late musical show conducted by Andrea Delogu, during the international women’s day.

“I don’t even know how many things I lost because of my pain. Dozens of specialists saw me, I was hospitalized in dozens of hospitals. I passed out on the street. All this lasted 8 long years until, two years ago, this pain finally took a name and materialized for everyone. For me it has always been concrete… the only thing that was invisible was the name: vulvodynia », explains Soleri, model and influencer, keeping her gaze fixed in front of the camera.

«For many, the moment of diagnosis is a sentence, for me it was a liberation because it also means being able to receive therapy. I don’t know if I’ll ever get well, but one thing is certain: a monster is less scary when you look it in the face. Tonight I’m here and put my pain at the mercy of anyone just to clamor for a right: the social, political, medical and economic recognition of a still underestimated disease but extremely disabling like vulvodynia ”, comments Giorgia Soleri, who wanted to sensitize the public about the disease by exposing herself in the first person. Certainly not everyone.

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