The lives of Chiara Ferragni and Federico Leonardo Lucia, better known as Fedez, took a 180 degree turn this last Sunday, February 18. According to several Italian media this past Thursday, February 22, the couple had decided to put an end to their love story after seven years of relationship, a grand wedding and two children together, Leone and Vittoria.
The couple was one of the most loved and followed on social networks, since between them they accumulated more than 40 million followers. But their idyllic relationship began to falter a few months ago when the first rumors began to emerge that they were going through a marital crisis.
Speculations that have been gaining more strength as the days go by, but it was not until this Thursday that what was an open secret was confirmed. As confirmed by the Italian media Corriere della Sera in the last few hours, the content creator and her husband ended their relationship this past Sunday after the Italian rapper left the family home, located in Milan, with no intention of returning.
The news of the breakup has generated a lot of excitement in all the international media, but especially in the large community of followers of the marriage, which has been waiting for confirmation from the protagonists since last Thursday. But it was not until today, February 28, when Fedez finally spoke after her breakup with the businesswoman. The rapper reappeared at a public event on mental health and young people, held in the city of Turin by the Circolo dei lettori Foundation.
”The protection of mental health must be a priority for our society. “We must fight the stigma surrounding the issue of mental health and the use of psychotropic drugs, and focus on helping young people, given the staggering, and growing, number of suicide cases,” he began.
In addition, the singer also took the opportunity to talk to young people about the complicated health problem he had a while ago when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. ”If I died, my children would not remember me, they were too young. And that was absolutely what scared me the most, more than death itself. But it was also what gave me strength to face the operation,” said the rapper, who also said that he took seven medications at the same time with an antidepressant.
”It caused me to stutter as a side effect. I got scared and stopped taking all the drugs at the same time, without reducing them, which created the so-called rebound effect with very serious consequences,’ he declared.
”It was when the thought of dying gave me more relief than the thought of waking up the next day. Getting out of that takes time and help,’ he asserted. Even so, the rapper declared at the end of his speech that “you shouldn’t take life too seriously because you won’t get out of it alive.”
Although the news has caught many by surprise, the couple’s followers already imagined this outcome. And the influencer and her husband had not interacted through their social networks for weeks or without sharing any joint images. Something quite strange for two people who spent a large part of their daily lives publishing content as a family. In addition, a week ago the Italian businesswoman changed her Instagram profile photo to one where her husband did not appear.
This complicated personal moment for the couple adds to the scandal that the influencer was involved in last December related to a ”misleading” advertising campaign for a pandoro (typical Christmas sweet) for charitable purposes for a hospital in Turin. This erroneous commercial practice was uncovered by the Italian justice system, which sentenced the businesswoman to pay a fine of one million euros.
