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« on: February 02, 2015, 11:10:56 pm »

Actress Greta Scacchi defends relationship with her cousin

Award-winning Australian actress Greta Scacchi has spoken out in defence of her controversial relationship with her cousin.

The star, who in her 80s heyday was best known for roles in films 'Heat and Dust' and 'White Mischief', was scolded with a negative reaction from the media and some members of her family after she had a child with first cousin Carlo Mantegazza 12 years ago.

Scacchi told the Daily Mail: "My dad Luca was deeply offended and quite devastated. He was very angry," adding that her Italian uncles said that Scacchi and Mantegazza's relationship went against the Catholic church.

"We were hounded by the media and a lot of nasty stuff has been written about me as a result. But we've weathered the storm and are still together.

"[We got together] one night when he was visiting and it came as a complete shock. We were friends for a long time before we got together in 1997 and I had never seen him in that way before. I was definitely scandalised by it and worried about how to tell people - especially my family.

"Some of the Italian relatives were utterly outraged. My dad found it especially hard. Thankfully, my mother Pamela was very supportive, which meant the world to me. Mum is very broad-minded but she's always been a strong critic. And although she would have wanted me to find someone rich, profoundly intellectual and urbane, she accepted my choice."

Of Mantegazza, Scacchi described him as a "rock, a giver and a carer" and said that she has always had "an extraordinary feeling of it being right".

Scacchi has also been in the news again with family woes after her teenage daughter Leila changed her name due to her classmates finding naked pictures of the star on the internet.
Scacchi revealed: “It’s not so much what I did in films, but how the material gets used later. That’s the worst thing for me. That’s not how I was agreeing to play those scenes.

“When boys at my daughter’s school have been interested in her and have Googled her name, they discover what, out of context, looks very gratuitous, semi-pornographic.

"It’s humiliating and upsetting, and hurtful for her. We handled it, but she was upset and angry with me.”
 
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