During the show, the 48-year-old former journalist and host of Le Iene publicly admits to having HIV: "I have HIV, and I have the purple halo."
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| Italian actress Elena Di Cioccio (Source: Instagram) |
"I am HIV-positive." A bolt from the blue in the middle of the night. A long-kept secret disclosed in an interview and later in an unexpected monologue on the show Le Iene, for which she has long been a journalist and presenter. And where Elena Di Cioccio returns, this time as a guest, to talk about something significant, something that alters lives: "For me, it meant living without a piece," she tells former colleagues' microphones. A discovery that comes only a few days before the April 4th release of her book, " Bad Blood " (Vallardi). Di Cioccio is told in 360 degrees in the text: from sickness to cocaine addiction, lack of parenting, relationships, and the farewell to the mother who died by suicide.
"It's uncomfortable to talk about it," Elena di Cioccio admits during an interview on Davide Parenti's show, where she has been a regular for many years. "Do you have HIV?" they inquire. "Yes". She did, after all. Elena is now able to talk openly about the diagnosis she received 21 years ago, even if her eyes show the intensity of the moment, of the revelation: "Within my body, there is a virus that might burst, called HIV." What exactly does this mean? In the worst-case scenario, this can progress to AIDS. How it was until roughly two decades ago: from the 1980s, when it was identified, until the early 2000s, the immune deficiency syndrome killed almost 20 million people. Yet, owing to technology, that disease is no longer a death sentence in the Western world. "You can live a normal life." "You'll be in treatment for the rest of your life," explains the ex-hyena. But HIV positive, this virus, is still something little recognized, wrapped in mystery... or, worse, something to be ashamed of.
Di Cioccio, 48, mustered the confidence to talk openly about it, despite the fact that "I feel beneath this eruption of emotions"; yet, in recent years, he has gone through all of the psychological phases that this ailment involves. Inevitably. "It's as if you've lost a hue, since you're no longer the same as you were before." That person from previously is no longer present, she says obviously moved. "In the early years, I genuinely rejected the sickness, even to myself." "I remember collapsing into fifteen hundred pieces," she recalls on the day of her diagnosis. "I didn't go hunting for this thing," she says, "she just happened to be there."
She was 26 years old, she didn't tell anyone, and she felt as though "if they had informed me the expiry date: it would have ended like this." That was 2002, fresh out of the 1990s, with everything that they meant on the issue of HIV, with social signals that appeared to imply "You are dead, you are total evil." Since this illness was linked to drug abuse, homosexuality, and promiscuity." Elena Di Cioccio, like practically all other HIV positives, felt the shame of the stigma despite her innocence. "They didn't say, 'Look at that...'. He did not inform me! "She is referring to the individual who infected her with HIV. "I don't believe he even realized." This is the ignorance that surrounds the theme.