Love between Monica Vitti and her husband, Roberto Russolasted 49 years and the man, who never left the actress alone in the two decades of illness, told on the pages of Corriere della Sera this intense story, which continues today that Monica no longer exists. Roberto also revealed the last love message from his wifewritten before closing in the silence of his evil.
Monica Vitti’s latest message to her husband: “Nothing is beautiful without you”
Interviewed on the pages of the Corriere della Sera from Walter Veltroni, Roberto Russo recounted the love, which lasted 49 years, with Monica Vitti. “I was 25 years old, 16 more than me, she was the leading actress, I was beating the ciack”. So is the man, husband of the great diva disappeared on February 2ndhe told of this marriage full of love, even in the years of his illness.
“For twenty years I stayed at home, by her side, to never make her feel alone, I never went out except to do the shopping and a walk around here”. Roberto has never regretted having dedicated his life to his wife, who suffers from Lewy body dementiaa disease that causes severe cognitive instability, leading to, among other symptoms, loss of memory, attention and hallucinations.
The man also revealed the last message of love written for him by Monica Vitti, before falling ill: “My great love, my beautiful love, love love love, how beautiful it is to live with you, work with you, argue with you, make peace with you, build with you, be afraid and cry and laugh. Nothing is beautiful without you “.
Roberto Russo has no doubts: “I’m still in love like a madman. Since February I have missed a beat every moment “.
Monica Vitti and Roberto Russo: a love divided only by death
They met on a movie set, Theresa the bark, in 1973, he was a simple machinist, she was one of the most important actresses of Italian cinema, and she was 16 years older than him. But since then, Monica Vitti and Roberto Russo have never left each other, remaining together for 49 years.
The couple married “only” in 2000, on the rise of the actress’s illness. “I defended Monica, her desire for privacy until the end of her – she explained in her interview with her Risso – I tried to make her laugh when she could, and to always hold her hand. And I would do it again, I would do it again every day of these twenty years that I do not separate from the other thirty. They have all been wonderful, because they have all been with her ”.
An endless love, and despite her illness, Monica showed affection for her life partner when she could. “She Up to the end she tried to react” explains the husband, who has never told, in recent years, any detail of the evil that kept his wife away from life and from the stage.
“Monica made me live a beautiful life, every day full of happiness and love” concluded Roberto Russo, telling an unpublished anecdote: the then boy, unable to confess his love to Monica Vitti, had initially left the set of that film, but then it was recalled, precisely at the behest of the actress who, therefore, had understood and already reciprocated that sentiment.