Loredana Berte, a singer and actress who married Bjorn Borg from 1989 to 1993, has spoken out again about the tennis legend’s cocaine addiction.Berte told Francesca Fagnani on Belve de Rai 2 that he never understood why Borg attempted suicide in 1989. Cocaine addiction played a role in our breakup; at one point in the relationship, he chose cocaine to me, which I could not tolerate.”
The woman known as the ‘Sophia Loren of Italian rock’ said about her 1992 breakup with the Swedish tennis player: “We were staying at a hotel in Palm Beach, and he had an exhibition match.
When he returned to the hotel, he called and requested two prostitutes; they arrived dressed in leather and wielding whips, and he suggested that we take sex to the next level.
I punched him and left, and when we got to Milan, I refused to let him inside the home. It was over from that day forward.
Cocaine’s influence on Borg Berte, who met Borg during a holiday in Ibiza in 1988, previously stated in her autobiography ‘Traslocando’ that Borg had “a monstrous dependence on cocaine.”
“He allowed McEnroe to win Wimbledon in 1981 because of coke.”
“Borg was extremely lost in the brothels he frequented. I hadn’t seen him in two days, and when he arrived, I threw a sofa, silver plates, and all of his tournament trophies out the window.
I whacked him with racquets, and when his terrified mother intervened, I gave him the remainder, telling him, ‘I married you because you had to be the father of my children’. Borg spluttered in confusion, and his mother informed me that he would only have children of pure Swedish blood.
“I threw another couple of medals over the balcony and left for good,” the 53-year-old singer said. “I left him too late, in 1992; I should have done it sooner.” With Borg I lost both my feelings and the money in the bank.
“I always paid, because multimillionaires never have money in their pockets,” she explained in her book.
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