Adriane Galisteu says the Senna series is not a response to the driver’s family: “It’s not to stir up controversy”

The presenter launches the documentary series “Meu Ayrton Por Adriane Galisteu” next Thursday, 6

Adriane Galisteu met Ayrton Senna at the age of 19, while working as a model at the Autódromo de Interlagos, in Sao Paulo. From there, the two began a relationship that lasted a year and a half, interrupted by the Formula 1 driver’s untimely death at the age of 34 in an accident at the Imola circuit in Italy in 1994. Their love story will now be told in the documentary series. My Ayrton by Adriane Galisteu, from HBO Max, which will have its world premiere this Thursday the 6th, a story that, according to her, could only be told by those who lived next to him.

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“We have an obligation to keep Ayrton’s image alive. Everyone knows that he was a hero on the slopes. This has been depicted in books, in documentaries, in films. All these stories are valid and deserved, but nobody treated Ayrton as a hero without a helmet. He was also this hero as a man. And, to tell this story, it had to be me. Because I was in the last year and a half of his life, next to him. This cannot be erased. This story is very important. mine”, says Galisteu in a conversation with the press this Monday 3.

The documentary series told from the host’s point of view was produced after the miniseries premiered Seine (2024), from Netflix, which was made with the support of the driver’s family and which attracted controversy for its poor portrayal of the driver’s relationship with Galisteu. The host, however, underlines that the project was not a reaction to the work already done.

“This documentary does not want to stir up controversy, it is not an answer. It’s just my story, it’s just what I experienced. Here, I won’t tell you anything about what I heard, anything about what I saw, I’ll just tell you what I experienced. I will never judge what you do to me, because it says so much more about you than it does about me. My mother taught me very early that in order to say that mine is right, I don’t need to say that someone else’s is wrong.”

The communicator says she initially didn’t want to do the series, but was encouraged by her husband, entrepreneur Alexandre Iódice, who stressed the importance of telling your own story. Galisteu also admits that he thought several times about giving up on the project, as revisiting the memories of his relationship with Senna and, above all, the death of the driver, was a delicate process.

“It’s very profound to return to a place where I was so happy and so sad at the same time. I experienced those two feelings deeply. Extreme happiness and extreme sadness. Thirty years later, telling this story with the mind I have today, as the woman I transformed into, going back to that place is too painful.”

For the presenter, revisiting the past at 52 years old was something positive, as she was able to better understand the attitudes she had at 19 years old. In doing so he tried to place the Galisteo of the past in his lap and not to judge her. “It’s not fair to look back and say what I would have done differently. I would never mistreat myself to that level. But I did everything I could at the time and I thought I did everything very well.”

In the series, Galisteu says he tried to tell the story of Ayrton Senna as the public has not yet seen it, with testimonies from people close to the motoring legend, but who until then had not been highlighted by the media. Another novelty will be to show what life was like together with the pilot.

“We had fun, it was a light relationship, it was a very different life from what people imagined. I know how much we had fun and I know how much I had to learn from my pain”, he concludes.

Source: Terra

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