Venditti: “My mother bullied me, she told me I was fat as a pig”

"I have the gift of predicting the future. I had predicted Covid and the earthquakes in Amatrice and L'Aquila. I could have ended up a terrorist"

ROME – “My mother bullied me. She told me I was silly and that I was fat like a pig; and the second thing was true. Now they call it body shaming. I read Tiziano Ferro’s story, and it seemed to me that copied my life.” But Antonello Venditti hasn’t given up, on the contrary interviewed by Aldo Cazzullo for Corriere della Sera he says he took from his father “the vitality, the wit, the rebellious spirit. And also a little the gift of foreseeing the future” . Guy? “I notice things that others don’t notice. I was in Paris with my partner, who can confirm it. I wake up and say just two words: Earthquake… L’Aquila. The same happened to me before the Amatrice earthquake On November 29, 2019 I said that there would be an immense, unprecedented event on a global level: it was Covid“.

He once said that he could also have become a terrorist: “I knew terrorists. Adriana Faranda was my neighbor in Circeo. Giusva Fioravanti was in my high school, Giulio Cesare. Over the years 70 Pierluigi Concutelli wanted to meet me, and it is possible that we met for lunch. I also always frequented those of the extreme right. And I also experienced it on the side of the State explained, papers in hand, how things were. Groups that we thought were left-wing, like Serve the People, were actually far-right. I had an advantage, too This is why I didn’t become a terrorist. Because I understood the great deception that was behind ’68”.

De Gregori and De André “pretended to despise me; in reality they knew that I had a tougher skin than them. I took it, the spitting of the fascists. I suffered attacks and discrimination. When it came to De Gregori was terrified, also because it was friendly fire, it came from the left”.