The politician made this known through a personal statement she signed.

She writes:

My relationship with Andrea Giambruno, which lasted almost ten years, ends here. I thank him for the splendid years we spent together, for the difficulties we went through, and for giving me the most important thing in my life, which is our daughter Ginevra.

Our paths have diverged for some time, and the time has come to acknowledge it.

I will defend what we were, I will defend our friendship, and I will defend, at all costs, a seven-year-old girl who loves her mother and loves her father in a way I couldn't love mine.

I have nothing else to say about this.

Giorgia Meloni

Meloni, who came into power in October 2022, was brought up by a single mother and was estranged from her father.

She met Giambruno in a Mediaset studio before participating in a show after a day of political rallies. He said in an interview that an exhausted Meloni handed him a half-eaten banana, mistaking him for her assistant, before going on set. He described their meeting as “love at first sight”.