“In college, at the age of 13, I was abused several times and a fact like this leads you to go, at times, towards self-destruction, because the abused feels guilty. It is important to say this. If you do not deal with it deeply, this pain eats you over the years, it leads you to live life with great difficulty ». Lapo Elkannit’s said without hypocrisy in the interview with Silvia Toffanin which airs Saturday on Canale 5 (very true). And it reveals an adolescence of abuse that explains that dark dissolvi – that instinct on the contrary, to self-destruction rather than self-preservation – that has punctuated his private life that has almost always become public news. A cry for help as he plunged into the abyss of “unacceptable” vices for someone who comes from a family like his where the model of perfection is something you shouldn’t aspire to, but must represent the minimum wage.
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“For me the use of substances was an anesthetizer”
Lapo Elkann, now increasingly committed with his Laps Foundation to helping fragile or troubled children, speaking of his childhood confides: «I did not love my childhood very much. I was a dyslexic child, hyperactive, suffering from attention deficit and since I was always behind in school, I wanted to show that I was stronger ». To Silvia Toffanin, who asks him how he managed to overcome this trauma, he replies: «My sensitivity and my great willpower have helped me. I am not afraid of my frailties. I learned to accept myself and ask for help. It took some time but today I’m fine with who I am. When you are alone, at some point you don’t know how to deal with frailty. Substances destroy your life and I have had problems. For me, substance use was an anesthetizer. I anesthetized a pain I felt in me. Unfortunately I have paid the consequences several times … I have done enough harm by myself, from now on I want more ». Speaking of the lawyer Agnelli, Lapo says: «My grandfather gave me and taught me a lot. He is one of the people I loved most in my life together with my grandmother Marella ». And just remembering grandmother Marella, Lapo confesses: «I wish I could find a woman with her qualities. Now, however, I am very happy, I have a very nice Portuguese girlfriend and different from all the women I have had in the past ». Are you ready to be a dad? “I would love to be a dad, but I’m afraid. I don’t want to have a child just to do it, but I want to meet the woman of my life and then have a child with her ».
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September 10, 2020 (change September 10, 2020 | 16:32)
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