Asia Argento and his desire to tell and tell himself. The actress, who will be out in bookstores with her premiere on January 26th autobiography, Anatomy of a wild heart, published by Piemme, in which he tells the many violence suffered in his life, give it barrel, never revealed before, received from the mother to the rapes suffered by some directors (not only Weinstein, ma also Rob Cohen). Until’love that saved her. That of Anthony Bourdain, his great love of maturity, and that of his children, his real anchor of salvation.
In a long interview with Corriere della Sera, Asia anticipates the highlights of his story. Starting from the difficult relationship with the mother, the actress Daria Nicolodi, who passed away a few months ago, from which he ran away at 14, because he beat her (“When I asked her why she did it, she replied that I was the strongest. She had to let off steam …”)
I guess she felt rejected. I left home the day after my 14th birthday, he hadn’t even bought a cake and I realized that he didn’t care about me: I always organize something special for my children for their birthday … I told my father about the violence that I suffered at home and with him we invented the stratagem that I was staying with my grandmother, even though I actually lived in her house alone, because he was busy on the set and Fiore was studying in the United States. So one day my mother called me to the court, my father’s secretary took me there, and renounced her parental authority. I got it back when I got pregnant with Anna Lou
And then the rapes suffered as a young man. The one already extensively told immediately by the ogre Weinstein, and the one never confessed by Rob Cohen, action film director who directed her in XXX, in 2002.
This is the first time I’ve talked about Cohen. It happened in 2002 while we were shooting xXx. He abused me by making me drink Ghb (the rape drug, ed), he had a bottle. At the time I honestly didn’t know what it was. I woke up naked in her bed in the morning. And this is the truth. The purest thing about this MeToo is that one woman recognizes herself in the other. If one keeps a bottle of Ghb, surely he will have given it to others as well
Then come back to Weinstein:
I had removed the rape. When he came back and apologized saying he was my friend, offering to help me find a nanny for Anna Lou in America, in 2002, I had not yet started the analytical journey to understand what he had done to me twice. I didn’t have anyone in the United States, I was alone. I felt strong that I had already shot Scarlet Diva where he must have recognized himself. I didn’t know he had done the same to so many others
Surprisingly, despite the various media battles, Asia is instead very generous in the book with the fathers of her two children: Giovanni, son of Michael Civetta, and Anna Lou, got from Morgan.
With them I brought the joys of my life into the world. With both of them I was happy, I loved them, I was loved, I do not bear grudges: in the end today the good moments far outweigh those of greatest tension
Asia, despite her complicated life, has been saved by love. The big one with Anthony Bourdain, her latest partner, who committed suicide in 2018, with whom she says she feels connected:
It was the love of maturity. He entered my life on tiptoe, he immediately made friends with my children … We spent a lot of time together. He prepared incredible things for us, when he was there, my mother and father, my sister and Angelica also came home. Everyone in my family loved him. He was a very generous man
I always talk to him. For a while I did it with regret: “I’m so alone now, but why did you have to go?”. Lately I have been cooking a lot with my son and I tell Anthony the good things. Mourning is something you never know how long it lasts or what form it takes, it’s all about coming to acceptance
And the love for her two children, the only real medicine for Asia, despite the pills she still has to take to fight anxiety, insomnia to depression.
The last happy moment? Last night when we cooked the Kobe Beef they had never tasted. We were very happy and throughout the dinner we said to each other: how lucky we are to eat this thing, it is the best meat of our life. Then we started to see a movie and Nicola fell asleep and said: how comfortable I am, how happy I am … These moments with my children pay off everything, great and immense is the happiness of being with them
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