Ambra Angiolini is a fully-fledged woman. With her sufferings, still her weak points. But this doesn't mean she can't live with others' judgments or let herself be subdued. No. «I have always lived with judgments, but I refuse to become the trash can for others' frustrations and I set boundaries: I don't allow anyone to trample on my little garden and leave their excrement there». Clear words that the actress pronounces to Corriere della Sera. Words that come from a strong show. A character that Ambra embodies perfectly.
Ambra and bulimia, the story
We are talking about a story dating back to 1965. Of Franca Viola, the girl from Alcamo who bravely refused a reparatory marriage and said no not only to her ex-boyfriend, who kidnapped and raped her, but to an entire system of relationships based on male domination over the female.
Unlike Franca, Ambra grew up in Palmarola, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome, in a serene environment: «That neighborhood remains in my heart. In the building where I lived with my family, I was never alone. A community rich in humanity, where everyone knew everything about everyone, but they were not gossip, just a desire to be supportive, an extended family».
A serene environment, a beautiful family but at 15 Ambra became bulimic. Why? To Corsera she says that «there is no why. I was born bulimic, perhaps a genetic predisposition. I filled my belly with food, until love entered my belly, which filled with meaning and out came my first daughter Jolanda: I gave birth to her and she gave birth to a new me... we theoretically have the same age».
Everything started with the success of "Non è la Rai" with Boncompagni «Gianni gave me a lens to look at the world in a different way. The last time I saw him, it was at a dinner together, shortly before his disappearance: that evening he declared all his esteem, his respect, his pride for having trained me. And then he told me: don't lose your professionalism, just to do, do, do... It was a beautiful farewell».
Ambra Angiolini continues to dream. And she has a big one still to realize: «A year ago I opened all the drawers: the dreams that were inside were getting moldy... Now I have the feeling of being in the realized dream, the theater, the expressive form that I love the most: it is a context that makes little noise and I continue to choose it even though it's a hard work to do the tours. But when, while I'm acting on stage, I don't see cell phones on in the audience, it means that for the audience I'm more interesting, that I've won over social media or the chat of the moment... and, at the end of the show, I go home happy».
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