Victoria Gotti Gets Emotional Talking About Her Father

One of the main things I noticed about this movie was that you know when you were a kid you weren't exactly aware of what your

father

did because he was like a protégé of you, so how did you reconcile your

father

's public image as a notorious gangster? with your own personal relationship with him as a very loving and overprotective father well, you have to remember that I didn't know that when I was a child. I didn't know anything about that until I was well. He was really an adult now. Although I couldn't say delicious. so I don't know how to answer that unless you rephrase that question, but you know my dad was home at the time we started putting two and two together and I realize that the things we were in just weren't right, I don't know. were. normal or guarantee of the norm, let's say the house of a girlfriend, you know, whose father was maybe an architect or someone whatever.

At that moment I realized that my father was very, very, very protective and he protected us all from anything. I mean, he never brought friends. At home he never brought up a conversation of that nature. I remember I was telling someone this morning when the soprano came out for the first time, everyone was looking, you know, the surprise that the writing was was that I thought it was brilliant, you know, work-wise and I. Remembered as a journalist, I had to cover, you know, any criticism, the closure, my father wouldn't allow us to see it and I was an adult at the time, it sounded crazy and I had my own children, but I felt almost guilty putting that up. and watching the show to criticize it, you know, because my dad felt like he didn't have options growing up and we did and that's all we got out of it, so it was really our, you know, my reasoning on it.

In terms of that, he would never talk about his childhood at all. I know until I want to say just a few months before that he was very very strange and very strange, but he had never mentioned those things and we knew that he had it very. very, very hard when he was a kid and there were nights, I mean, his father beat him every other night at most, you know, just because you know, maybe the day is my grandfather and another future comes in and is miserable on his own. life and he would just take it out on one of the children and it was usually him, other times there was no food to eat, my grandfather would be gone sometimes for months leaving my grandmother with a house full of children that she couldn't support, so her education It was much more attractive than ours, but he never talked about it.

We heard little things about my mom and when we got to a certain age, you know, then we learned little things about mom. She grew up in an orphanage, her parents, you know? I put her in Sacred Heart Academy and that's where she was raised so they both have very strange hard lies so we never asked, we didn't go, we felt like it was something they both wanted to forget and they didn't really. talk unless it was between them and that particular I remember when he started

talking

about the years before and was closest to him ever.

I really don't think my mom and I had this conversation recently and I don't know. Yes, I totally agree with Todd, but she told me one night, you know, I really believe that your father really believed that he was going to beat that cancer and that he would stay on our mission and not come back the second time and that I also believe that she said that he believed he would eventually get out of the appeal because of all the lies and testimony. Andrea rest of pro bono and what do you have to get him fired just because they were working on those legal matters, but I believe this.

It's what she had in her head and I said, do you really believe it and she said yes, she said I was a little more skeptical. I knew you know when the president of the United States says we want someone like that I said it and I wanted to. a plate, you know, like she said no president or Leo or something would give a layman a man with that much power. You know, it's almost like a Martin Luther King thing where you have all the conspiracies and it was someone else. I don't like it, you know?

So what did they do? They went with his wife. They tried to convert something that way. Well, let's go to his family. Let's separate that. Let's do this. He is a man who is doing great things for our country. He was set back God, he moved this into the future, you know, a hundred years, but my father, I think my mother really believed that he believed this and I was very surprised, I don't know if I completely agree with her to this day. , but I think she would know him, you know, on a different level, you know, it's more of a husband, a wife, it's different, but him, what actions we talked about about his childhood towards the end and they were just things that come up thinking why now you.

I know why and it was painful and difficult to give it to them let alone let him, you know, tell them and then I realized why he was doing it. I think he may be right, half right and maybe half wrong. I don't know, but I think sometimes I assumed it was the end and he didn't show fear, he never did, that you wouldn't show anything, except I think he had hope, but at the same time, just in case or if he was at least going to do it . Take that part out, you know, he once said something to me and it really hurt me, they cried the whole way home, the two hour drive back to the street.

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gets

you off a flight back to JFK something about said something my uncle was visiting us, his older brother and he said something like mom and uncle told my dad it was okay, you know, I sent someone, you know? I was there last week because she supported her every weekend, she said I sent someone last weekend, she wasn't there but I'm sure I'll see him this week and then my dad just shrugged and looked at my uncle. and he said well, I couldn't tell you personally, he said because I'm just

talking

about infra ecology, uh, he said and they usually say exactly the same thing, he said, you know, shoot, Junior, I love mom, he said I might as well get a stamp, he said alone.

Seal it and throw it away and I just remember, you know, crying and thinking, hey, you know. Wow, no, thank God, we, I mean, we weren't like I said, my mom and dad, you know, they were raised tough and they we knew they loved us, but they. They weren't the most loving people because they didn't know what it was to be loving, they never got that affection, so I always remember promising me when I got married, when I had my own children, they would know that I love them every day of their lives. be at night getting ready to go to bed, whether it's in the morning when they went to school, but they would know and they would ask for the hug and the touch, they would feel like they feel the warmth, they feel a protective nature, you know, and that .

It was something that I struggled with very hard with my ex-husband because he was from that colder place, you know, not as much as mom and dad, but he was from that colder place, you know that characteristic in that sense and I always told him , go away. there and hug me, you know, let's say the oldest or go there and tell you the story of the baby and he would look at me and say: I'm so tired that I licked a little, but I would say at his own point and He did it, but it was something very important to me, but like I said, going back to your question, I'm sorry I digressed, but now I digressed, but I think towards the end he realized all this and therefore it was his way. to tell me, tell maybe other family members that you know things that he told us a long time ago that maybe we should have known or that you could have found out, I could have argued, but he never did, she looked at him like he was complaining , so I never wanted to do that.

I'll say it like knowing more about him and knowing who knew who he was why he was sure you know in a certain way what where when how why and he didn't say it that way yeah, he saw it. as a way to get closer to your father, but he saw it, something you were telling me too much, yeah, I think he saw it as a sign of weakness, like complaining, and he just didn't complain and then decided that she was me. I survived and do you know what would happen if he could survive? Then someone might survive.

Although it is so. You know it was just this. It was strength. Stay strong. Be strong. You know, always be strong. I mean, we'd just try to be strong. Know. Stay strong. and one of the animals you compare them to like a lion and yet he remains in the movie a lion is a lion even in a cage right, he is still lying down and your dad always told you stay strong, how do you think that affected you The repeated stay strong? Stay strong and you only have a limited amount of the time, choose them wisely.

I mean, I knew he wouldn't tell me weaknesses and wouldn't tolerate anyone, that was me and I think that inflated my anxiety when he was a kid. I think that for him, you know he wouldn't tolerate it, he didn't have time for those who would be the pollyannas or the complainers or the Criers, you know, my God, he says I had to get your stuff off that lot, you know, get up, hold on, You know. you walk with your shoulders straight, with your head held high, you know, and you do what you have to do and that's it, and after a while I think I mean, I noticed things even in everyday life, silly things, things that had to do with PTAs, things like that in school, whatever, I would say certain things in the human comments about things, they say the way I handle a situation with the system or not and I started to learn a lot more about it as I grew and I realized that I had had little patience. for weakness he didn't have time for it and wouldn't tolerate it you know his attitude was if he went through that you know we should all feel blessed compared to the education he received so don't sit there and complain because you're complaining . and preaching to the choir, is there anything you want to communicate to him before he passes away?

I think it's the same as anyone who loses someone they love, you know, does or says. I say it all the time, you know, again. He said: You know I love you, you know how important it was, but towards the end he had this thing that he didn't love us. I didn't know it at the time, but he would have believed me. I would have thought that and no. I would have tolerated it I would have done it I was always the rebel you know I would but my younger brother had done it and my uncle promised that when he got to the final end you know and he couldn't talk anymore or they put him in a medically induced coma that he didn't want that we saw it that way so the visits had to be suspended and I didn't know that my brother.

I knew my younger brother moved to be closer to him and I think he would go there twice a week. to check on him, you know, talk to the people who work there, the management, whatever and just be around and we would know basically how my brother was doing right now. Knowing that most of it was just sugarcoated and if he had done it. just so you know, a chance to do it again. I think he would have done the same thing as my brother coming out and I didn't know what it was all about, but I know what you think his legacy was and why you think it was.

It is very important for you to tell this story. I think his legacy was that he was very proud of his family and he loved having family. I remember he didn't yell at Mom or say hello to her, and you know things like she didn't. She didn't want to thank me, she didn't want to go on a vacation, something, a birthday, he was telling her, you know, you have to respect this and accept it, and you don't know, you know, I'm not just saying this because I'm locked in a kitchen, I'm not saying nothing, uh-huh, look, you're a great-grandmother now, you should be very proud of that, you know, and he sent me, oh my God, she said, you know, honey, she said she'd be home, she said.

What I wouldn't give is having to sit in a chair and watch them run and jump on me, she said, I mean, I look around and see what I built, what I created and he was saying I can't. I think you wouldn't know that you wouldn't feel like driving there or you'd miss it, so his family was on one part of his legacy, on the other hand, his other family and the business that he was in, you know, my father I think you know, he thought. of himself as if it were like he was a warrior, you know he was a warrior that was fighting a war that he was ready for at any moment, you know one of his sayings, you know, one of the things was, give no quarter, take milk. or you know, it's a war saying, you know, and he just was things that he didn't understand when he said them, you know, and then he didn't realize these things, but you know he was always, I think, ready. both sides of his life for anything and like I said, what I saw where I saw the most joy from him was in the grandchildren, you know, when they got older or ran away, they mixed up the holidays, you know, Christmas was a big deal for both .

I saw that growing up that I even told my mother all the time look what we did, you know look, do you realize what we've created, what we've done, so I think that's it, you know No? I don't think any of us expected that we would know, we'll loosen up soon well, I just want to say thank you so much for opening up so vulnerable. I really appreciate it and thank you. I know audiences will really appreciate this movie, so thank you. Your victory thanks