Rome, 6 July 2021 – He asked for a simple one crude wooden coffin e an urn for his ashes. It will therefore be cremated Raffaella Carrà, the artist who made a gentle revolution starting from his physicality, always with elegance, died yesterday afternoon at 78.
The funeral will be Friday. His last wishes revealed by Sergio Japino – the choreographer who was one of his two great loves, then a friend forever, he gave the world the news of his disappearance – they tell a lot about the artist who enchanted the world. Of her unsettling simplicity, of her confidentiality. Of courage. “Really I’m afraid of everything, then when something serious happens I am always amazed by my clarity. Loneliness is a good opportunity to rediscover yourself. When my house empties, I breathe, ”he confided in an interview from 2019.
That same year, in a rare ‘private’ confession, speaking of the death of Gianni Boncompagni, the other man in her life, she let herself go: “I would like to talk to him, to go to him. It is not possible and then, even if I do not go to church, I still speak to it while praying. I pray every day, not just for him “.
The TV lady managed to keep her private life away from gossip. And he decided to keep secret his too disease. It was written that she had been hospitalized for a long time Villa Del Rosario, a private nursing home in Rome. She once said of herself: “You danced, you sang and you danced. Now it remains there that I rest ”.