Andrea Giambruno, journalist and former partner of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is back on TV, interviewed by Paolo Del Debbio on Dritto e rovescio. We start from the famous outbursts of Striscia la Notizia: “What were you thinking when you saw each other again?”, the host’s question. “Seeing myself like that, I felt ashamed, I felt embarrassed for myself, because I’m not like that,” said the journalist, who had a daughter with Meloni. Giambruno wanted to apologize “to the people who saw those off-air events and to the people who love me, who know me for who I really am. I also apologize to my daughter, who suffered seeing me like that, I should have protected her in a different way There is a family that I, as the man of the house, as a father, should have protected. There is a woman that I would have liked to protect, but I didn’t, so I apologize.”
“It took me I think two months to review that extract. The first time I saw it I didn’t recognize myself in it, I felt embarrassed for myself because I’m not like that. I’m not like that in the workplace, I felt ashamed of myself. Seeing myself again in that outskirts was a trauma, after 13 months I think it’s right to start with an apology”, the journalist began.
The sentences considered sexist and offensive to some colleagues sparked the case and preceded the couple’s separation. “I paid the price, perhaps excessively, I was wrong to confuse work with friendship, but now I want to follow my own path”, commented Giambruno who doesn’t skimp on remarks to some colleagues: “I’m not a chauvinist and I don’t I am an abuser, yet I have been defined as such by many. My daughter was there in front of the TV listening to these things.” What do you want for the near future? “That they would leave me alone,” says Giambruno about the attacks which are still continuing months later.
