Francesco Totti's ex-wife is poised to return to Netflix for the second season of her behind-the-scenes documentary, with viewers awaiting more revelations from their relationship.

Described as Italy's answer to Posh and Becks, Totti and Ilary Blasi married in 2005 on national TV and had three children together.

They established themselves as one of the most popular couples in Italy having met in 2001 and had been married for 17 years. 

The couple separated in 2022 and while the split initially appeared to be playing out amicably, their divorce proceedings became increasingly bitter.

Blasi, and Italian television host and former model, was accused by Totti of being unfaithful.

She responded to the claims in a Netflix documentary titled 'Unica', which was released in 2023 and rapidly became a hit on the streaming service.

'I spent a year and a half observing and understanding what had happened,' Blasi said on Italian TV chat show, Verissimo, ahead of the documentary's launch.

'I have read and listened to all the different points of view and opinions. But it was my story and I always put my face in everything I did. So this time it seemed good to me too say it.

'Francesco has always been jealous of me, his jealousy was nothing new.'

The marriage deteriorated after Blasi had hired a private investigator to track her husband following her belief that he was being unfaithful.

In 'Unica' it explained how Blasi came to know the relationship between Totti and his new girlfriend Noemi Bocchi.

It transpired that Blasi learned of their relationship through a play-date her daughter Isabel had had. They would separate soon after.

Roma legend Totti, who scored 307 goals in 785 matches for the club, denied Blasi's claims.

The former Italy international, now 48, placed the blame for the breakdown of the marriage with his ex-wife.

'It is not true that I was the first to betray,' Totti said.

'I said I was not going to speak and I did not, but I have read too many hoaxes in recent weeks. Some have even made my children suffer.'

Totti had also claimed Blasi did not support him following his retirement from football and when his father passed away due to Covid-19.

He also suggested that Blasi had impacted his mental health after alleging she had cheated on him.

Totti claimed he had gone through his wife’s phone after hearing rumours she had been cheating on him.

‘I had never done it in 20 years, nor had she ever done it with me. But when I received warnings from different people, whom I trust, I began to suspect,’ he said, adding he was ‘not the first to cheat’ in the marriage.

Blasi later claimed one message discussing a meeting at a hotel had been intended for a private investigator, who she had hired to follow her husband. Totti had also accused Blasi of having bugs and GPS installed in his car.

Blasi had suggested Totti had been looking for an escape route from their marriage and had accused him of cheating on multiple occasions.

'He is the father of my children. Maybe he was confused, scared, maybe it was a route of easier escape, but nothing like what we feel these days,' she said.

'Other betrayals? Probably yes, but I have no proof. In my heart, now I say yes.

'I tried every means to save this marriage and did what a wife and mother should do. But it didn't work.'

She denied to Corriere della Sera last year that the couple had been in an 'open relationship'.

'The thing that hurt her the most was reading that I knew everything, even that we were an open couple, but only on one side: not mine,' Blasi.

'It is not true that I was okay with the idea of being cheated on.

'As if I had to consider myself lucky to have been "the chosen one": I was with the world-famous footballer and therefore I had to close my eyes and keep quiet. Before and after. I'm used to gossip, but all this affected my integrity as a woman.'

The break-up of the marriage had captivated Italy, with one newspaper coining the headline 'The War of the Wardrobe' in response to one of the more farcical elements of their separation.

Totti had claimed Blasi had 'run off' with his Rolex watches which totalled over £830,000 in value, which resulted in him hiding her Jimmy Choo, Amina Muaddi, Le Silla, Casadei and Gucci shoe collection and handbags in retaliation. 

Speaking to Corriere della Sera, he said: 'What was I supposed to do? I hid the bags, hoping for an exchange.'

Blasi made a video seemingly mocking Totti on Instagram posing in front of a Rolex shop. The model and TV presenter eventually reclaimed her belongings.

While the 2023 documentary 'Unica' delved into the break-up of their marriage, Blasi has since claimed she would like to have dinner together with Totti and their three children.

'Hope is the last to die, it would be nice,' Blasi said, while she expressed her hope that her ex-husband and his girlfriend Noemi Bocchi are happy.

Totti reportedly began dating the Italian model and presenter shortly after splitting with Blasi, with the mum of two having been pictured with the star at a Roma match.

Blasi has also moved on by dating German entrepreneur Bastian Muller.

'He was the one to take the decisive step. I thought of everything except finding a boyfriend, I had been alone for four months. We were in the lounge of an airline, waiting to board,' Blasi told Il Messaggero.

'I was going back to Rome and he to Germany. He had never seen me before and didn't know who I was, luckily. 

'He waited for me outside the restroom, introduced himself, and instead of asking for my number, he asked what my Instagram profile was.

'I gave it to him but didn't ask for his. When I reached my sister and my friend Francesca, who had seen everything, they insisted that I run to ask him before his boarding: "Go or you will never find him again", they said. 

'I have too many followers, I wouldn't have seen his request. That's how we connected.'

She recently described her split from Totti as giving her a 'second chance', which will reportedly been explored in the second season of her Netflix show, titled 'I am Ilary'.

'For Unica there was more media attention, it was about the separation, I had never spoken,' she said.

'Here we change register, there's me and you have to want to pry into the things I do. I never have expectations, but I had fun. 

'My life began in the media and ended in the media, separation included.'

Netflix claim the series will see Blasi try 'try new experiences, come public with her new boyfriend and enjoy the happy consequences of her troubled divorce'.