"8:27. The blue sky almost makes the hospital pretty. Almost. You're 17 years old, almost 17 and a half, a huge ball in your heart. You cross the courtyard, you hope to meet no one, that it does not last long, a pill and that's it. Shame? It will pass. You're like the pierced child that the future will fill but it's too early for that. "Barbara, are you sure?" We explain life to you, around it is agitated and then there is this sentence that is thrown in your face: "But you are only a whore! That's what happens, yes! You are not protected and you may be sterile, you had to think about it." Of course you thought about it. 8:50. You come out of this collapsed room. Full of guilt." In 2020, in Chair, Barbara Pravi publicly spoke about the abortion she underwent at the end of adolescence.
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A painful memory on which the singer returned, last week, in the web-show "Rewind" on the YouTube channel FranceTV Slash. "My parents didn't educate me about sex life at all, nor did my school. It was very blurry for me all that. So, I got pregnant while taking the pill," she began. "In fact, I had an abortion several times, I was diagnosed as too fertile. It's like people who are sterile but it's the other way around except I didn't know it. What was very hard was that it happened several times and it was incomprehensible because, first, I protected myself and then I took the pill but it didn't work," she continued.
"I remember taking his computer and screwing it on the ground"
Barbara Pravi
Despite the various precautions taken, Barbara Pravi became pregnant and always preferred to have an abortion. But in front of the doctors, the young woman had to face sharp remarks. "I was told it was my fault. I was treated a lot. The second time, I remember it very well because I was in a hospital where the doctor, it was a man, refused to give me the pill and basically told me: 'I don't abort little whores like you,'" said the France representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.
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This time, the singer had called her father to the rescue. "We broke down the door of this doctor who was in consultation. I remember taking his computer and screwing it on the floor. With my father behind whom, for the moment, was with me, it was completely crazy, he yelled: "But how can you talk like that to a kid? She's 17 fucking years old! Do you realize what you're saying? Do you realize what you leave as a trace to this girl afterwards? What will she think? How will it grow? Isn't it okay or what?"
»An event that strengthened his ties with his father. "I had a great moment of love with my father at that moment because I felt accompanied in something that was not common," she said before concluding: "It is for moments like this that I have never let go of the link with my parents. They knew how to be there when you had to be there."
