Milan, Malpensa Airport, 18 November 1955

     Reporter: Welcome to Italy, Madame. Would you like to tell us briefly what really happened in Chicago?

     Callas: God… A very unpleasant, unpredicted, and unexpected thing happened because… What would you want, I was staying there for three weeks – if somebody wanted something from me, they could have come to visit me earlier. Instead, eight of their so-called sheriff’s deputies presented themselves backstage trying to.

     Reporter: But you did react vehemently...

     Callas: But it was clear that what they wanted to do is just to harass me, as they say; so I started to yell. I only yelled out for them not to touch me and to go away.

     Reporter: And where are the things standing now?

     Callas: I know nothing, because I had to take a plane at 6 AM; therefore, I have heard about it from you or from others, or read about it in the Montreal newspapers, so I know [nothing]… Perhaps you know more than I do!