Morgan denounced Calcutta
“I publicly apologize to Angelica, I said horrible things. I was out of my mind”. Morgan breaks his silence on the matter of the trial in which he is accused of stalking following a complaint from his ex-partner Angelica Schiatti. He does so through a long interview given to Corriere della Sera in which he defends himself from the various accusations leveled against him by the singer-songwriter from Monza to whom he was romantically linked in the past. And he says:
I had a serious drug addiction problem. Angelica told me: we’ll solve it together, then we’ll get married and start a family. (…) I underwent brain treatment. A very powerful treatment, almost like electroshock. She left me there, under the electrodes and I never saw her again. I was in a hospital bed, my brain bombarded with magnetic waves, my optic nerve screaming. I left the hospital and she blocked me on WhatsApp, she didn’t want to talk to me anymore after eight years that had been a river of words, of soul exchange. (…) In the conditions I was in, I found it inexplicable, frightening, it was as if I were dead to her. I just wanted to understand why she had transformed from a friend to an enemy in one day. (…) I sent those nasty messages in that context. I wasn’t myself. (…) I felt unjustified anger, I was exasperated, emptied of any hope. I felt like I was dying psychologically and emotionally.
When asked: “Has he detoxed now?”, the former X Factor judge replies:
After the blow, slowly, I recovered. My music and my daughter saved me. Last May I signed a contract with Warner and I was happy: I had been looking for a contract with a major for twelve years. My greatest pain is that all my work has been taken away: the album, a book that was supposed to come out, the Rai program, the concerts. I feel like an amputated. With Warner, Calcutta said either me or him, and Warner tore up my contract. I reported him, I had to. The bad thing about this story is that they made me become a person I am not: I believe that a singer-songwriter cannot report another singer-songwriter, I believe in dialogue, in the power of words, in compassion, in humanity.
Calcutta, following the publication of the article in the Fatto Quotidiano last month in which the details of the trial in which Morgan is accused of stalking on the complaint of his ex-partner Angelica Schiatti were reconstructed, broke the silence and thundered on Instagram: “Warner has decided to offer a contract to this persecutor despite being aware of the facts.
It seems right to me to sever any possible working relationship with the label. The songs I write will no longer be available to the performers on their roster and all Warner employees are no longer welcome at my concerts. Anyone who behaves like this while remaining silent is complicit in my eyes”. Warner Music Italy’s reaction was not long in coming: “Warner Music Italy, in light of the content and messages that have emerged and reported by the Italian press, has instructed its lawyers to sever the ongoing contractual relationship with the artist Morgan, leaving the issue to be discussed in the appropriate venues”.
