Nora Valsami: “Vogioclakis divorced Papamichael because she could not bear the beatings.”

Nora Valsami, in a rare confession to journalist Nikos Nikoliza, recalls moments from her relationship with Aliki Vogioklakis.

A strong friendship until the end

In the chapters “Aliki Vougiouklakis” and “Zoi Laskari” Nora Valsami remembers how wonderful it was for her to live alongside them. “I had known Alikaki for a long time. However, we became close friends after our rehearsals for the film 'Lysistrata'. When we were hanging out and partying, we exaggerated everything.

The Lord is risen! We waited for how and when our birthday would come, to celebrate our souls. This is the kind of friendship we are talking about,” she says, moved by what she remembers, referring to Aliki’s secret marriage to Cypriot businessman Giorgos Iliadis.

Alice knew all about me and I knew all about her

“I was the first person he trusted. She told me how she met him, but also how she broke up with him. Alice knew everything about me and I knew everything about her.” However, the next question concerns the violent fights, but also the beatings at the hands of Dimitris Papamichael, and whether he confided something like that to her.

Hit Alice with Papamichael

“Aliki couldn’t take it anymore…so they broke up. She couldn’t take the beatings, as she told me, so she divorced him.” She lights a cigarette, takes a heavy breath, and painfully answers the next question, about when she remembers the last time she spoke to her best friend, Alice.

It will pass, Noraki, and this too will pass

“Easter was approaching. It was the last Easter that Alice was alive. He already knew he had cancer. He called me and said, 'Come on, pack your bags and let's go to Theologus.'” She was confident that he would be fine. Even now, she often turns Her words are on my mind. “It will pass, Nuraki, this will pass,” he told me. He thought he could handle it. When she entered the hospital and was going to “leave,” I would go to her every day as soon as I finished training and keep her company.

Full hours. I just wanted to enter the room. She did not even allow her mother to go see her. She was conscious to the end. For the past twenty-four hours she had been bruised all over. “I don't want to remember that look I gave her, which lingers in my mind to this day.”