Lapo Elkann, his drama to Verissimo: “The person I loved most killed himself.” Lapo confesses in the living room of Silvia Toffanin touching painful aspects of his life. The grandson of Gianni Agnelli he had a complicated childhood, marked by dyslexia and especially by the violence suffered when he was only 13 years old. “I was abused at the age of 13 several times in boarding school and it’s something that has created confusion in the head. It leads you to go towards self-destruction and risks killing you. You have to accept it and go deep. My luck is that I have tremendous willpower and I am hypersensitive. The two things together help me. Then over time I learned the most important thing: to accept yourself and ask for help ».
Lapo managed to face his frailties and set goals, while his best friend did not make it: «My best friend killed himself. He was the person I loved most in my life. He was a fantastic, fragile person who, unlike me, did not fight his demons. In my heart there is always ».
In a complicated period like this, Lapo feels the need to do good: «As a child I had two dreams, one was to become a Formula One driver, and the other to change the world. My goal is to become an entrepreneur of solidarity. Helping others makes me feel better than making money. What makes me happy is to see others who cannot be happy become. I am living this period with great concern. You see so much anger, so much tension, you see people who think that Covid does not exist. We must learn to live with Covid. Instead of going to war, we should work to restore energy ».
And on drugs he admits: «Substances only lead you away from who you are, to lose yourself and your goals. I think I’ve hurt myself enough in my life. I think there is nothing more important than love.
Finally on private life: «I have a very nice girlfriend and different from the ones I’ve had. She is a very strong woman. I am grateful to her for helping me work on myself and find a balance, but she is not the right woman to have a child. I would like to be a dad to a little girl, but I’m afraid. I don’t like failures, I don’t want to get divorced. Having a child is not a game ».
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