“A slap. It was enough to give back a slap, while he called me a whore and I was missing a piece of hair that he had torn from my head, to become a violent woman and he the poor man”. This is the story of the TV commentator Roberta Beta, former Big Brother competitor, during the presentation of the book ‘Victims of violence: stories of ordinary everyday life’, by Elisa Caponetti in Rome at Palazzo Valentini, in which Roberta describes the violence that does not you always see “that devious man of manipulation. They are normal stories that almost all of us have encountered without understanding their power. In the eyes of friends they are ‘stories like this’ in which I am with my strong character – he says, recalling his personal story – of a woman intolerant towards such a good man. But I – she adds – I was drained by an energetic vampire who made me feel wrong, bad “. “He was perfect in the eyes of my parents so much that my father wondered why I left him – she recalls – But then my mom understood. I assisted him, because I was a loyal and in love woman. I allowed him to stay at home but I made a big mistake, because I went through a series of problems that turned against me in a very strong way – he continues – Francesco exploited our fragility in his favor; he made me pay for every beautiful thing we did a price too high; he hated my resilience. And I – he adds – I wondered why “.” Now – Roberta Beta remarks with pride – I have regained possession of my life. he gave love, painted the picture, wrapped a rotten package with a fantastic paper. I want to denounce the violence that cannot be seen, hidden under layers of respectability. And I want to alert everyone: these attitudes touch the adoles cent. My son, while not justifying his father, has entered that loop and gives me a nuisance. And I feel that he thinks this about women and it scares me. “Then the former Big Brother participant concludes:” Today they tell me: ‘you are reborn, what happened?’ I took back my life. But I put aside the tale of Prince Charming and I will never go to live with anyone again. ”