Francesco Totti announces his divorce from Ilary Blasi after 20 years

The 45-year-old former Italian soccer player reported that the entire separation process with the television presenter will remain “rigorously private”

ROME — The Italian soccer player Francesco Totti and the model Ilary Blasi They announced their divorce on Monday after twenty years of relationship and marriage and they did it separately, through two different statements, and claiming respect for their privacy.

“After 20 years together, unfortunately my history as a couple with Ilary it’s over. Everything I have said in recent months has been to try to protect our children,” the former soccer player, who had denied the rumours, said in a note to the media.

“I have tried to overcome the crisis in my marriage but today I understand that the separation, although painful, is no longer avoidable. I will continue to be united with Ilary in the education of our wonderful three children, always with great respect for my wife,” he added.

Totti He advanced that the divorce will take place “rigorously in private” and that he will not offer more statements.

Shortly before, Blasi had released a statement through the Ansa agency announcing that her marriage to Totti “it is finished”, using practically the same terms.

“The separation process will remain a private event and no other statements will follow on my part. I invite everyone to avoid speculation and, above all, to respect the privacy of my family,” the presenter concluded.

The famous former captain of Rome45, who hung up his boots in 2017, married Blasi (41) on June 19, 2005 and, throughout this time, they formed one of the most solid couples in ‘calcium’ and had three children, Chanel, Cristian and Isabel.

The rumors of the divorce had emerged last February, due to an alleged new relationship with the soccer player, but at that time the couple denied their crisis, despite the fact that they had not been seen together in recent months.

The media reports that Blasi did not want it to affect her work as the presenter of the program “La isola dei famosi”, which ended on June 27 in Mediaset.

The end of this couple was received this Monday with great expectation in Italy and occupies a prominent position in the internet editions of all the country’s media.