Carlo Vanzini breaks the silence with a touching new message

Carlo Vanzini chose LinkedIn to speak again a week after the dramatic announcement about the pancreatic cancer he has been struggling with now since June: “I would like to thank you for the tidal wave of affection, but also to apologize because I have not really physically been able to respond to your messages of extraordinary energy… I would like this energy to be for all Carlo and all the people like me who have a challenge ahead of them. Linkedin is a working world, we should put in bio 2025 – today… Fighter”. As in work or sports or life in general, we know that to achieve goals you have to do. And so our challenge is to do, never stop and then do again…”.

Andrea Gussoni

“And don’t hide, illness is not a shame it’s a strength, it’s the good fortune to open your eyes to things that you used to take for granted and are no longer, realizing that they are a privilege, but not only now, they always have been!!!! Thank you for being there, I say this even to those I do not know in person…” he concluded by signing proprty Vanz Fighter. It all started on June 18 when he found out he had pancreatic cancer. Five years ago, his sister Claudia had died of the very same disease, and now the Sky commentator at 54 has begun his battle: he has already undergone ten chemotherapy sessions and will have surgery at the end of January.

“Actually I wasn’t sick, I didn’t notice anything. My Sky colleague Davide Camicioli had posted from the Formula Medicine center in Viareggio, with Dr. Riccardo Ceccarelli. I was thinking of skipping the usual checkup this year, but when I saw him, I called him to tell him that if he had notified me I would have gone with him. In the background, I hear the doctor suggest that I show up the following Wednesday… “First I do an abdominal ultrasound. Lorenzo, the sonographer, immediately tells me: we have to talk, there is a lesion; you can catch it, but you have to run. I immediately call my wife Cristina, who despite the shock takes action to book a CT scan and a visit with the surgeon, in Verona. But sister died at San Raffaele, from the same disease. Psychologically, I preferred to be seen elsewhere. The surgeon drew me a picture on a paper and told me about the operation, after chemo. Knowing that I could have surgery gave me a glimpse of light. I decided to talk about it because someone is starting to ask questions. Days ago I trended on X because of my appearance: I am swollen from cortisone, I am bald, I lost my beard… Some acquaintances believed my story of a makeover without blinking an eye. Others wrote on social media to my children: it was Luca who asked me to tell them”.

In the world of Formula 1, which he entered back in 1998, he met everyone: “Including Senna, him, however, when I was a policeman and I was doing security duty: he came to take a picture with us and jokingly asked us if we wanted to arrest him. Of Schumacher I saw how much he cared about the team. I was very good friends, with the modesty that goes with that word, with Jules Bianchi, who fell asleep in Japan never to wake up again. My team warned him on the way to the Dutch GP. I took off my cap and told them out of the blue. Everyone was great. I don’t believe in a conventional way, I don’t go to church. I went in there to light some candles for my sister. But when I am in the mountains and I go down to the valley after everyone has gone, I just talk to God”.