Lory Del Santo and the death of her son Conor Clapton: "It was a matter of two seconds"
The showgirl remembers the tragedy of Eric Clapton's baby who fell from the 53rd floor. But Del Santo has also lost two more children
"Destiny is made up of seconds. Two seconds ago, it wouldn't have happened."
Lory Del Santo , 64 years old in September, will never forget the tragedy of the disappearance of her son Conor, from guitarist Eric Clapton.
In 1991, the boy was 4 years old and was in a Manhattan apartment with his mom and babysitter when he fell out of a window on the 53rd floor .
"Who knows how many times for two seconds things did not happen and maybe I stayed alive - says Del Santo to Corriere della Sera -. Now, I go on thinking: they are still there. If not, you go into depression and you don't get out. more. It's like being buried alive, they throw the earth over you with a shovel and you see everything, but when they go away you, with a finger, you can free yourself. I see this image all the time. I see that, despite everything, I pull my fingers out and I survive ".
A tragedy was also the suicide of his son Loren , aged 19, suffering from anhedonia: “He was diagnosed posthumously. I always just thought he was special , because he was good, good, never took drugs or had bad friends. How could I imagine mental illness? At school, the teachers told me: he's always alone, but he's good. The only abnormality was that he was too intelligent: he spoke little, but if he spoke, he said fulminating things ”.
Then the death of a third son: “ I also lost that of Richard Krajicek, the tennis player . He was born in Milan, premature but perfect, he died in two weeks of an infection ”.
(Unioneonline / D)
