Lacuna Coil vocalist Cristina Scabbia spoke to The Metal Circus about her recent battle with COVID-19.
“I tested positive in December. I spent Christmas and New Year’s alone at home. Actually, it wasn’t so bad, because I’m a very independent person, so even when I’m alone, I’m fine. And I’m not a big fan of Christmas and New Year’s Eve,” she said. “Of course, I missed my family, but at the same time, I was like, ‘I have everything I need. I have a TV, I have a computer, I have a microphone, I have all the power outlets that can keep me occupied,’ so I can’t complain.”
Asked if she became very ill after being diagnosed with the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, Cristina said: “The first week wasn’t fun. Two days were very bad because I didn’t have a high fever for even one day, a fever that went down with medication. But it affects each person differently, and the way it affected me wasn’t in my throat. For example, many people had a sore throat and a cough. For me, it was like a normal cough. My throat was fine. I had a feeling of tightness and a taste; they never went away,” she explained.
“But for a week I suffered. Like, my nerves were aching, from my back to my legs. I couldn't find a comfortable position in bed, so I couldn't sleep because I kept waking up because I had, like, nerve pain. Like a kind of sciatica, but double, not just on one side, on the other side too. It was really bad. Then in the second week I had a kind of congestion, so I was speaking very nasally. But overall, I was okay,” the singer added.
Scabbia, who confirmed she was fully vaccinated when she contracted COVID-19, went on to attack people who refuse to get vaccinated because they can still catch and transmit the disease, even if vaccinated.
“Well, this is a difficult subject because I get very, very angry, in a way, when I talk about it,” she said. “Because I trust science. Many of my friends are scientists, biologists, virologists, so I talk to them constantly. And to see people who have no idea about medicine, including myself, because I never studied science or any kind of science-related subject, thinking that they know everything about how a vaccine works, what’s in it, long-term risks, testing, is very depressing.”
She continues, saying that with the internet, anyone can become an expert on anything. “Some people [are] more willing to believe one person they know nothing about than an entire community, a global community of doctors. And that’s really depressing to me because it’s 2022, we should be open about this and, above all, we shouldn’t do something that helps our health policy. Many people are confusing politics and vaccines.”
Last month, Lacuna Coil returned to the studio to begin recording "a very special project."
In June, Scabbia told Revolver that she and her bandmates didn't use the coronavirus downtime to work on new music. “We didn’t want to force the fact that, because we were at home, we had to write music,” she explained. “We always thought that to write music you need inspiration. And inspiration comes from outside, it comes from the experiences you have, from the things you live through. At least that’s true for us.”
Last year, Lacuna Coil released a new live album, Live From The Apocalypse, recorded at the band's special livestream event in September 2020, where the band performed their latest album, Black Anima , in its entirety.
