Loredana Berte: Bjorn Borg preferred cocaine to me and we broke up when he brought two prostitutes with whips

Singer and actress Loredana Berte, who was married to Bjorn Borg between 1989 and 1993, has once again spoken out about the tennis legend’s problems with cocaine.

Berte told Francesca Fagnani on Belve de Rai 2 about Borg‘s suicide attempt in 1989: “I never understood why he did it. Cocaine addiction played a part in our break-up, at one point in the relationship he preferred cocaine to me and I couldn’t accept it”.

The woman known as the ‘Sophia Loren of Italian rock’ commented on her 1992 break-up with the Swedish tennis player that “we were staying at a hotel in Palm Beach, he had had an exhibition match. When he returned to the hotel, he phoned and asked for two prostitutes: they came dressed in leather and with whips and he told me that we should go to another level with sex. I hit him and left, and when we returned to Milan I didn’t let him in the house. From that day on, it was over.”

Cocaine’s grip on Borg

Berte, who met Borg during a holiday in Ibiza in 1988, already explained in her autobiography ‘Traslocando’ that Borg had “a monstrous dependence on cocaine. He let McEnroe win Wimbledon in 1981 because of coke”.

“Borg was very lost in the brothels he frequented. I hadn’t seen him for two days and when he turned up I threw a sofa, silver plates and all the trophies he had won in his tournaments out of the window. I hit him with racquets and when his frightened mother intervened, I gave him the rest, telling him: ‘I married you because you had to be the father of my children’. Borg spluttered in confusion, while the mother told me that he would only have had children of pure Swedish blood. I threw another couple of medals over the balcony and left for good,” the 53-year-old singer recalled.

“I left him too late, in 1992, I should have done it earlier. With Borg I lost my feelings and the money in the bank. I always paid, because multimillionaires never have money in their pockets,” she said in her book.