Tiziano Ferro at Vanity Fair: “I’m not interested in being popular, otherwise I would have remained anorexic and undeclared”
The singer talks about himself in an intimate and emotional interview, which comes after the back and forth with his former record producer Mara Maionchi
ROME – “I believe in the good faith of Mara Maionchi, I believe in the good faith of anyone who has unintentionally created uncomfortable situations but it is no longer enough. I believe that Mara and many other people have not realized it is enough how traumatic and painful that attitude is which is imprinted forever in the unconscious and in the existence of still fragile children. Today I forgive their good faith, but a mea culpa must be made and not taken take this topic lightly. I don’t care about being popular with everyone, otherwise I would have remained anorexic and undeclared“. Tiziano Ferro talks about himself in Vanity Fairin an intimate and emotional interview, which comes after the back and forth with his former record producer Mara Maionchi which reopened old wounds. The interview with the singer is published in issue 20 of Vanity Fair, on newsstands until May 14, 2024.
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“A writer we both respect, Barbara Alberti, maintains that the word ‘faggot’ should be used freely. What do you think?” the journalist asks Ferro who replies: “I trust the their good faith and I understand their reasoning which requires the freedom to say or write “faggot” when they most wish. I want to believe them and I also envy a little those who have the possibility of choosing a term without ever having experienced the violence of receiving it as an insult. Certain words were the executioners of your mental peace, they were repeated to you as a child, in kindergarten, in elementary school, in middle school and every time you changed city, region and state Words are a source of trauma and can be a vehicle of civilization or incivility. Perhaps we need to learn to evolve together with language”.
The singer who is currently divorced from her husband Victor confides: “Every now and then I would like to attack, but it’s not my nature. Sometimes, not biting, not attacking, however, was a form of self-harm: instead of taking care of myself, I retreated only out of politeness or kindness The truth, I have discovered over the years, is that I need people, friends who know how to listen“. Especially in these difficult moments, as he himself has declared several times, and which he is passing also thanks to the love of his two children (Margherita and Andres, both around two years old) and for which he is forced to live in Los Angeles for the question of unrecognized paternity in Italy. But the idea of another love relationship is out of the question: “With two small children the last thing you want is to start a new relationship. At the moment I don’t have the slightest intention of entering into that meeting mechanism. If it happens, it will be like in the rest of my life, where things happened by chance, as by chance I found myself living in Los Angeles. But I really like one thing: my two children gave me the gift of immunity from Fomo, the fear of not being present at parties, at parties, at events, in the lives of others”.
