About a year has passed since their love story – which, in reality, is much more controversial than what they showed for years – is back in the news. The Italian rapper has published his biography, The water is deeper than it appears from above (The water is deeper than it looks from abovein Spanish), where he reviews the most high-profile episodes of recent years: , and his controversial time in San Remo.
“This is not a book in which I intend to emerge victorious. It is impossible to summarize what happened,” the artist explained in an interview prior to the publication of the book, on October 21. This autobiography is the version of his story, a story of which many details are already known and of which he wants even more to be known: private conversations, judicial controversies… A publication that arrives just when his ex-wife and mother of his two children led him to lose thousands of followers, advertising contracts, reputation and, of course, affected his marriage, which would end shortly after.
The sale of some Christmas cakes for false charitable purposes by Ferragni is, precisely, one of the topics that Fedez’s book deals with. “The next morning, I woke up with Chiara crying next to me. ‘A fine of one million euros,’ she told me. ‘What the hell are you talking about? You only raised 300,000’. ‘No, it was a million.’ ‘My goodness, Chiara, do you realize…? You were talking to me about 300, 400…’. I started reading the newspapers, discovered along with the outside world what really happened. And I got angry. I told him: ‘Look for a solution, but I don’t want this money.’ I had to deal with a problem that was also mine.”
Two years ago he jumped Pandoro Gateand since then the content creator and businesswoman has wanted to compensate for the damage her image suffered by making various donations to solidarity organizations.
This media controversy was the beginning of the end of their marriage. Two months later, That would be when the public war between the two would begin. “In March 2024, the final breakup occurred. One night I told him: ‘The children are older, they understand it.’ [Leone nació en 2018 y Vittoria en 2021]. Let’s not leak anything before talking to them. I don’t want his schoolmates to find out.’ And the next day, as if predicted, everything came to light. A relative of his had decided to spread the news.” To protect the privacy of his children, the Italian rapper was very clear with his ex-partner: “From that moment on, I forbade her from publishing photos of the children, because what happened showed that there is someone working for her willing to sacrifice the well-being of our children just to find a way out.” Something that both have fulfilled, despite the fact that the little ones were constantly seen in the two seasons of the reality who starred on Prime Video, The Ferragnez.
Although that would be the trigger for the breakup, the couple had already gone through other crises that they had not bothered to hide—in the reality They were seen in couples therapy. A year before the final separation, Fedez starred when he kissed Rosa Chemical with Ferragni present on stage as host of the musical contest. “In the dressing room, they treated me like a leper. Now I can say it: we had agreed [con Rosa Chemical]. In fact, I sent him a photo of my seat. That night they left me wandering aimlessly. Eleonora, my assistant, had to sleep with all the knives because I said I wanted to cut my wrists. “I was beside myself, and that was when I was completely exhausted,” he writes in another fragment published by the aforementioned medium.
She also reflects on Ferragni’s activism: “It was more about almost automatically following all the progressive struggles that were promoted on social networks. Whether she believed in them or if she was simply seeking to position herself, I don’t know. Her only objective was to show women as strong, emancipated, leaders and fulfilled. The model to follow. Which makes perfect sense, but if it is forced too much, the opposite result is achieved: that people reject them.”
His cancer diagnosis also occupies a part of the biography. As stated Vanity Fairthe rapper is grateful for the support of unexpected people in one of the most difficult chapters of his life. “ [líder ultraderechista de la Liga] He was the only person I felt true empathy from when he wrote to me. And that despite our differences of opinion and having told each other everything. For a month, he wrote to me every week to see how I was doing.” In the pages of the book he does not hide his mental health problems and the use of psychiatric drugs either: “They had become my skin, my language, my thoughts.”
