"My relationship with drugs? I was addicted to it and came out of it because there was something important: children." Claudio Amendola said it telling Francesca Fagnani in the last episode of the transmission "Belve" on Rai2.

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When do you hit rock bottom? When you realize that you found yourself in a situation where you were supposed to be lucid and you weren't. And then, fortunately, the fright or responsibility that only you can have at that moment, force you to return lucid. And so it was." "Did he come out of it alone?" asked the creator and host of the program. "Yes, completely alone."

The Roman actor then spoke of his separation from Francesca Neri and confided: "Today there is no pain. The pain was there before. There is, if anything, the regret of not having been, of not having been, able to get to the end".

Speaking about the actor's career, Fagnani pointed out to him that she had built her image by exploiting the mask of the "forced" and Amendola confessed: "Yes, I was very comfortable on this at the beginning. Then, when I came home, my parents would say to me, 'What the f**k do you say, you were born at Villa Stuart!' (private clinic in Rome, ed). But it worked and anyway I ate a lot of cobblestones myself. I didn't spare myself the road, the wall...". And about his turbulent youth: "At 19 I did a f**k and ended up in Regina Coeli. For a suck of gasoline! But it was a formative experience."

To the question "What will he be remembered for?" "For Christmas Holidays and I Cesaroni" was the answer. And maybe it's true: who does not remember Mario, an unrefined but attractive character with a dazzling smile, passionate about Rome and in love with Samantha, American girlfriend of the brother of his rich friend Luca Covelli?

And what about Giulio Cesaroni? The stereotype of the "true Roman" protagonist of the series for 6 seasons?

The presenter, in this regard, spoke of possible snobbery towards the actor: "According to you? In my opinion, yes", Amendola replied and, regarding the reasons, he added: "Because I have never been in the living room, I do not recognize them, I do not know what they are called, I do not go to the first ones". To the question: "In short, you are not part of what De Sio, here at 'Belve', has called the circle", Amendola replied: "The circle if anything! Which then varies according to the seasons, I have seen many circles ...".

The interview then also left room for more intimate moments in the life of the actor who revealed about his loves "I was loved more than I loved. I still have to learn on the subject", and speaking of his children he was moved: "The greatest joy? When my daughter Alessia, born 5 and a half months premature, made it".

In closing, a jab at the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, who in "Belve" had called him "The most st**** of all" and denounced after the boos at the film festival in 2011. Amendola, laughing, revealed: "But did he tell you to whom he had to donate the money of the lost cause? Ad Emergency". Fagnani: "But this is badness!"

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Claudio Amendola guest at Belve