Marco Columbro held his breath: the famous presenter risked losing everything due to the serious pathology.
Born in June 1950 in ViareggioMarco Columbro He still represents one of the most popular and recognizable faces on screen, largely thanks to his luck Professional partnership with Lorella Cuccarini in the 90s.
The mustachioed presenter began his career as a theater actor alongside Dario Fo, Zuzzurro and Gaspare and then finally established himself in the then Fininvest networks in 1980.
His most famous shows include “Paperissima”, “Buona Domenica”, “Scherzi a parte” and the marathon “30 Hours for Life”, but he also appeared in numerous theater performances and television dramas.
Marco Columbro has little by little reduced his television appearances, until it almost disappears from the radar; and in a recent interview he finally revealed the reasons behind his long absence from the scene.
Marco Columbro and the bitterness after the coma: “I died for television”
In 2023, Marco Columbro accepted the invitation of the presenter Serena Bortone in his afternoon gravure work “Today is another day” and on this occasion revealed that it was him Return from a very delicate clinical past. It was the year 2001 and the presenter was visiting the Tibetan monastery Samteng Ling in Graglia in the Biella hinterland suffered from a brain aneurysmand what cost him a month in a coma in Novara Hospital.
Marco Columbro also reported to “La Repubblica”: “I was in a coma for 25 days. I remember passing out in the hotel and waking up in a rehab center after a month in a wheelchair. Waking up from a coma was a rebirth: you have to relearn the things you learned. After the illness I died for television. I'm committed to the theater, my organic farm and my resort in Tuscany.” In fact, the host seems to have finally hung up his microphone and headphones and is currently managing accommodation in the province of Siena with his partner Marzia Risalti.
Marco Columbro: “A child born in an adult body”
Marco Columbro also admitted on the show “BellaMà” that rehabilitation after the stroke proved to be particularly challenging: “It's difficult to explain, but you feel fragmented. I didn't know who I was anymore. Then I couldn't do trivial things like jump with my feet together, and I spoke slowly: I was afraid I wouldn't be able to do theater anymore. I had to learn everything again: shaving, walking, using cutlery, like I was a child born into an adult body but with a broken spirit“.
Despite everything, the presenter paradoxically described himself as happy: “Thanks to this stroke, Doctors discovered an aneurysm in my brain that would likely have been fatal“.
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