Rome, Aug 19 (LaPresse) – “I will be very selfish, but I am troubled by the idea of no longer being here, of disappearing and not leaving a mark. Of not becoming a flower, a palm tree.” This was Pippo Baudo’s confession to Heather Parisi in an unpublished interview that she herself posted on social media and on her YouTube channel. “Seventeen years ago, in the quiet of home, you gave me an interview that I have kept in my heart. ‘I’d like you to give me a gift,’ you told me with that engaging smile. ‘Which one?’, I asked curiously. And you, with the warm voice of someone who knows how to speak to the soul: ‘Keep it for a faraway day…’. Those words, Pippo, became a promise. My promise to you. Today, as the world bids you farewell, I feel only a see-you-again. Because something so bright cannot vanish: it will return, in a hug, in a laugh, in a curtain rising again,” Heather Parisi recounts, explaining that it was an unpublished interview filmed in 2008 with “a 360-degree Pippo never seen before.”
In the more than half-hour interview, Pippo Baudo reveals: “I would like to come back as a butterfly, one of those colorful ones, but unfortunately the butterfly lives very little.” And again: “What frightens me? This world today. I am worried that man no longer respects man. We are now in a constant state of war, there is conflict everywhere, a hatred of man against man.”