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You know, it’s the journalists’ job to find something wrong. Of course, there were always the paparazzi, the press wrote stories, but many times they would make them up, because there weren’t any.
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It’s funny that her image became larger after she died, and it continues to grow now, that she is not alive anymore.īut mostly, it has to do with the way she lead her life: being in Hollywood, but in the same time living in Italy and Switzerland, going to the shops, doing normal things. But my mother was around and she didn’t have such an interesting life to talk about. Marilyn Monroe and James Dean died very young, in tragic circumstances. Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor had dramatic lives, with stories of marriages and divorces there was a lot of controversy around them. Of course, back then there were stars who were very much in the media. Compared to the present days, things were a little bit clearer. My mother always tried to have a normal life, and that’s what she also wanted for her children.ĭo you think her lifestyle had also to do with the fact that the media was different those days? Nowadays, what we see about celebrities in the media is that they are either very secluded, or too much in the limelight it seems so difficult for them to have a balance. She had a very good background, a good education, and I think she learnt this at home. Her main desire was to have a family and to raise children. Now, that I am 43 years old, I understand this is the way to keep the balance: stay true to yourself and act normal. It took me a very long time to understand that my mother was a star, because she didn’t act like one, she never told me or anybody else that she was one. So you never had the feeling you were living with a star in the house? But, in the end, what she said was that she was going to work.
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She considered herself very lucky to work with so many talented people – not only the actors and directors, but also the hairdressers and the make-up artists. She saw her career as she was going to the factory every morning. Today many celebrities promote extreme life – extreme diet, extreme sports, extreme fashion or expenses… So I think it’s a good thing she had a quiet life. She never wrote her biography because, she said: I have a very boring life. It’s something that had a lot to do with her education she never saw herself very much as a star and she regarded her acting career as her job. How do you think she managed to maintain this lifestyle? It sounds unusual, because when you were born, at the beginning of the ‘70s, Audrey Hepburn was already famous. And I am very grateful to my mother for that.
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They live in a special way – either isolated, or with dramas… I had a very normal childhood, between Rome – because my father was Italian – and Switzerland, where we had a country house. There are so many stories that you hear today, about the stars’ lives being so special in so many ways. When you are a child, you find it natural to be like this, but as I grew up, I understood much better my mother’s role in keeping this normality, without making the usual Hollywood fuss that exists in celebrities’ lives. I had a very normal and happy childhood, and for that I have to thank to my mother. For the first time in the Romanian media, Dotti fondly talks about his mother, recalling the „very normal and happy childhood” she offered him, and manages to draw a candid and authentic portrait of the beloved star. Twenty years after Audrey Hepburn passed away, we remember the legendary actress and fashion icon in this special interview which one of her sons, Luca Dotti, offered us exclusively. Despite their acrimonious divorce, Hepburn stayed in contact with Dotti during her lifetime for the benefit of their child.ĭotti died in Rome on 30 September 2007 after complications from a colonoscopy.Audrey Hepburn and her son Luca Dotti, at Connie Wald’s property in Beverly Hills, California, 1985 photo by Camilla McGrath Hepburn stayed with Dotti until she decided that their son was mature enough to cope with the divorce. However, many of those marital years were marked by Dotti's frequent affairs with younger women. Dotti had one child with Hepburn, a son named Luca, born on 8 February 1970.ĭotti and Hepburn were married for 13 years. Hepburn stated at the time that she and Dotti expected to have children together and that she would end her acting career to become an "Italian housewife". He was born in Naples.ĭotti met Hepburn in June 1968 on a cruise aboard a yacht owned by an Italian socialite, and fell in love with her on a trip visiting Greek ruins. Andrea Paolo Mario Dotti (18 March 1938 – 30 September 2007) was an Italian psychiatrist and the second husband of Audrey Hepburn from 1969 to 1982.