Joan Baez reveals in a documentary that she suffered abuse from her father. The veteran singer also reveals that she was hooked on anxiolytics for eight years.

“I am over 80 years old and I want to leave something sincere,” she tells this newspaper. The film, almost two hours long, premieres at the BCN Film Fest on April 23 and in theaters from the 26th of the same month. The documentary traces an overview of the gigantic cultural figure of Baez, with a career that spans six decades and which made her the grand dame of social folk and a relevant figure of the counterculture of the sixties. She was the first to give Bob Dylan a chance. Without her nose for detecting the talent of the creator of Blowin' In The Wind, it is very possible that Dylan would have taken longer to explode. ‘He needed a mother, someone to bathe him and sing songs to him. And I needed to take care of someone,’ she says.