Jungle camp star Cosimo Citiolo in debt due to gambling addiction
“I needed this fee”
Cosimo Citiolo speaks openly about his financial situation in the jungle camp. The ex-“DSDS” candidate has accumulated debts due to his gambling addiction. With his fee he wants to get rid of them.
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Cosimo Citiolo suffered from a gambling addiction.
Into the jungle camp, out of the debt trap: that’s Cosimo Citiolo’s (41) goal. The ex-“DSDS” candidate has massive debts due to gambling addiction. That’s the only reason he does “I’m a star, get me out of here!” with. “If I’m honest, I didn’t really want to come in anymore,” he says on Sunday evening in the RTL program.
Actually, he couldn’t imagine going hungry, but in the end he had to jump over his shadow. “I needed this fee, otherwise I can’t pay for the things,” he explains to his fellow campers Claudia Effenberg (57) and Verena Kerth (41). The last three years he has not slept well because of his debts. “It wasn’t an easy time for me.” Everything that had to do with money went down the drain.
Cosimo Citiolo wants to use Gage to pay off his debts
The jungle camp offers Citiolo a way out. “I can pay my debts with the fee alone,” he reports. According to “Bild”, the reality TV star will receive between 30,000 and 50,000 euros for his participation. His financial problems stem from gambling. “Otherwise I would have had a lot of money, but I gambled. The only thing that f****d me was the game.”
He gambled on a slot machine. “Everything was great at the beginning, and then things got more and more dangerous,” he recalls. He even gambled away the money he received from his father for his driver’s license. “When I gambled it up, it was like I just wasn’t there anymore – like I’d died in that moment.” He does not know how much money he has lost through his gambling addiction. In June he said to RTL: “But about a six-figure sum. You could definitely have bought a house from it.”
His girlfriend helped Cosimo Citiolo with his gambling addiction
He also got away from playing thanks to his girlfriend Nathalie Gaus (31). “She didn’t say I shouldn’t do it. I was more busy with her than going somewhere and throwing away the money, »says Cosimo Citiolo. He replaced the earlier feelings of happiness from gambling with the love for Gaus.
He still spends the money, but now for going to the cinema or restaurants. His conclusion: “I’d rather eat the money than gamble it away.” (bsn)