Monica Iozzi recalls her kidnapping as a child: ‘They even changed my clothes’

Monica Iozzi recalls her kidnapping as a child: ‘They even changed my clothes’


The situation occurred in 1982, when the actress was only a few months old.

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Monica Iozzi42 years old, recalled on Monday 15 the rapid kidnapping he suffered when he was still a child, in 1982. At the time, the family had gone to Foz do Iguaçu, in Paraná, to visit the tourist attractions and hold a short conference after shopping in the neighboring country of Paraguay.

At a diversity fair, a woman approached her grandmother. Monica Iozzi and asked to hold the baby. “I was seven months old, a lady saw me and said, ‘How cute, can I have him?’ It was a matter of seconds and the woman disappeared with me, disappeared,” the actress said. Portugal Show.

Distracted by the items at the fair, her grandmother Monica was remembered by the actress’s sister for the child. When she realized that the woman was no longer by her side, despair took over her and the other family members. Monica’s father started screaming and called the police. The mother, according to I’m going tohe fainted because of the fright.

With the delay of the police, the father of Monica Iozzi He started looking for his daughter on his own. “He saw that there was only one exit in the place and while he was calling the police, he started jumping on the counters of every warehouse and looking. He found me and I was sleeping, already with another blanket on. They even changed my clothes,” he said.

In addition to telling the story, Monica recalled a moment from her childhood, when she was selling beer on a football field, trying to reproduce a cartoon live and singing with Raphael Portugal.



Monica Iozzi in her mother's arms

In August 2023 Monica Iozzi had to leave the cast of They for them only two months for health reasons. At the time, Globo had specified that the type of withdrawal is the common one and that the doors remain open. In February 2024, the artist spoke openly about the problem that affected her.

She was diagnosed with dysbiosis, an imbalance in the gastrointestinal flora, which severely compromised her immunity. During the crisis period she contracted several infections in a short period of time. At the time I was taking large doses of antibiotics to control the pain.

In the plot They for themIozzi would be the protagonist Natália. The role ended up in the arms of Mariana Santos, who together with the actress participated in the preparation of the casting.

“I’m not esoteric at all, I’m quite skeptical, but I think sometimes our body says ‘stop right there. This path is not working.’ I’ve never been a person who paid much attention to food, for example. No matter how much I ate, the nutrients were not affected in my body. My immune system was getting worse, I was getting one infection after another,” Monica said at the time. “It’s a really beautiful soap opera, with seven protagonists. I was preparing, we [eu e Mariana] We were very close… It was a shock for me, but I understood”, she added while participating in the program In the Pool with Fê Paes LemeFrom GNT.

They for them would mark Monica Iozzi’s return to soap operas. Her last work on television was in The owner of the piece (2019), in which she played a cruel public relations woman with a sour sense of humor.

Source: Terra

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