"The Last Sentence My Father Told Me": The Heartbreaking Revelation of Totò Schillaci's Daughter

At La volta buona , Caterina Balivo 's program broadcast on Rai 1, on the afternoon of Wednesday 26 February, here is Jessica Schillaci , the eldest daughter of the legendary Totò Schillaci , who passed away last September. A touching interview, in which she spoke a lot about her father and his last days. A moving, touching moment of television,

When Balivo asked Jessica to reveal something she only discovered after her father's death, her daughter opened up: "Mom tells me that as soon as they found out they had me, a few weeks later she started to feel sick and had threats of miscarriage , so they put her on bed rest. Luckily the pregnancy went well, dad took care of her, especially the first three months. He put her to bed, categorically, he prepared food for her every day. He wanted to be a dad at all costs", Jessica recalls, moved. And again: "Then my mom managed to carry the pregnancy to term. When I was born, a gynecologist told her: you have to thank this little girl who made it with strength, it's truly a miracle and it's the miracle of life ".

The story reaches up to the last days of the hero of Italia '90, days in which Jessica confided and confronted her father. " He said things from the movies and unfortunately he was always away for work , so he had some shortcomings towards us, but I liked to eat with him, because he was a fun man, I liked to have fun with him, go on motorbikes and go boating. I miss him so much, and he apologized to me for not being there, he told me he would have liked to rewind the tape and change some things", revealed Jessica, so moved that she stopped because of the tears, which she couldn't hold back.

"His voice was a little soft because of the tumor, but he made himself understood, with those magic eyes of his that you all know, he understood ", that he wouldn't make it, adds Jessica speaking of the very last days of Totò's life. "We tried to divert him, a few days before he passed away he was convinced that we were in 2025, he was a strong man and he was the ideal patient, because he didn't complain much. The last thing he said to me? That he loved me. He apologized, and he said: my love, I love you, never forget it ", concluded Jessica Schillaci her touching story.