jerry Calàstruck by a heart attack in the night between 17 and 18 March, was discharged from the Mediterranean Clinic of Naples. There he was hospitalized for surgery to insert a coronary stent. The 71-year-old actor then ironically recounted the days of hospitalization. «In the operating room they were all my fans, they asked me “Lust” and they killed each other laughing” he said.
Jerry Calà, the illness and the intervention
Jerry Calà, who was in Naples for the shooting of his new film, They kidnapped Jerry Calà: the ransom is a problem, had accused a sudden illness during the night while in the hotel. Immediately aided, he was rushed to the hospital and operated on for the insertion of the stent, a device that serves to keep the coronary arteries open even in the presence of occlusive tendencies.
The no-vax accusations
The fact that in 2021 the actor had been among the celebrities who had invited Italians to get vaccinated, however, unleashed haters and no-vaxes at the news of the heart attack, attributed in the social comments to the vaccine. In the post with which the news of the illness was communicated to the followers, messages such as «syes, let’s get vaccinated. Bravo, enjoy your infartuccio», «Go Jerry… get the 5… save the life of the heart patients», «karma has come upon you». Attacks that however Jerry Calà liquidated with a lapidary post: «I have been warned of nasty comments about what happened to me and in fact I don’t read them at all».
Thanks to the doctors
Instead, once he was discharged, the actor decided to tell what happened to him. Speaking on the phone a Live Life, Jerry Calà praised the work of the medical team explaining that «I have never seen so much diligence and speed that has reduced the damage to the minimum possible. The later the intervention with the application of the stents takes place, the greater the danger that there is damage to the coronary arteries. The damage was very small thanks to this fantastic Neapolitan team that saved my life».
“Are you offended if we ask you lust?”
The actor then continued by recounting the moments of entry into the operating room with his usual irony. «They were all my fans – he said – and therefore they asked me: “Are you offended if we ask you lust?”, and they killed themselves laughing. It was an evening that I will certainly not forget for the rest of my life. Just as I will never forget Naples, where I chose to set the film Who kidnapped Jerry Calà?». But for now Calà needs rest: «Now I have to do some real retired life», he concluded.
The life and career of Jerry Cala
Jerry Calà, whose real name is Calogero Alessandro Augusto Calà, began his career with The Catsi of Vicolo Miracoli together with Umberto Smaila, Nini Salerno and Franco Oppini. For him, however, success came with the films of the Vanzina brothers, from Taste of sea to Christmas holidaysfrom Yuppies to Rimini Rimini. Married with Mara Venier in 1984, their love lasted only three years but their friendship did not fail: the presenter was the first VIPs to express closeness to him after the heart attack. In 2002 the actor then remarried the entrepreneur Bettina Castioni.
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