TOSia Argento was a guest yesterdayWednesday 20 December, to The right time, Rai1’s early afternoon show. And in a long chat with Caterina Balivo he spoke with extreme clarity about his entire journey. Not hiding all the pain she has felt since she was a little girl.
The importance of meditation
Asia Argento told her entire story in an autobiography entitled Anatomy of a wild heart. «This book was linked to my mother’s death. I hit the famous rock bottom when you can no longer live».
“When you couldn’t live anymore?” Caterina Balivo asked Asia Argento. And the answer was clear. «In many moments of my life. I hit various bottoms. […] I was trying to float. But sometimes you have to die in a certain sense to be reborn. I humbly rolled up my sleeves. I started doing meditation, practicing Buddhism. I don’t believe in Buddha, I don’t see it as a religion but as a philosophy of life.”
Asia Argento on 12 December 2023 on the red carpet of the film “Gigolò per Caso” at the Castello di Tor Crescenza, in Rome. Credit: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images
Asia Argento: The right time and alcoholism
The actress, director and musician continued. «Meditation led me to stop drinking. It’s a bit of a stigma. I was an alcoholic. It’s an illness. Alcoholism is not a vice. Maybe it starts as a vice. I started drinking because I was very shy for example and it helped me feel at ease with others. But then it became a compulsion. Maybe I didn’t want to drink but I found myself doing it. A sort of mental loop».
And he added. «One starts because “I become euphoric” but the problem is that it’s a depressant, over time you get worse and worse». But then he continued. «There is a solution, it is important for me to come and say it. A lot of people suffer from it. There is a stigma about this disease. All other illnesses cause pity, tenderness, compassion. Instead, the disease of alcoholism is the most misunderstood».
The mother’s violence: “a great shame that I carried within me”
During his interview with Caterina BalivoAsia Argento – among the protagonists of the new series Gigolo by chance starting today, Thursday 21 December, on Prime Video – he also talked about his difficult childhood, especially due to the alcoholism of her mother, the actress Daria Nicolodi, who used to beat her. «It was a great shame that I carried inside me, being beaten. I was the strongest of the sisters, I was the one who answered. Maybe I reminded her of my father… She had conflicts with him until her death. These unresolved things, her frustrations, she took out on me».
It’s still. «She was very violent. That’s how it is. Now I’ve been working on it and honestly, you know, the fact that I’m alive is proof that… When one survives he can forgive all this». And in fact, throughout the dialogue with Caterina Balivo, the actress demonstrated a great unchanged affection towards his mother. «We all need a mother’s hug. I forgave her. It is important to do so, to move forward.”
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