“It took me many years to put the word “rape” to what happened to me, I was raped other times afterward, because I didn’t put the word to the first one” .
Singer Lio spoke in a long interview, to be published on March 16, to the Belgian magazine
Max
.
She claims to have been the victim of
“rape”
by her stepfather, Alberto Nogueira, when she was a child.
The singer declares that it took her time to put into words what had happened to her:
“I discovered two years ago that I was raped at the age of 10.
Before, I just said “he’s a big idiot, friend of my parents, who took advantage of me, for 40 minutes”
,” she explained.
Lio also spoke about the psychological and painful consequences of this rape:
“My life is a daily struggle.
There are mornings to get up and make coffee, it's the end of the world
,” she said.
And added:
“All this never ends.
It is on this very small part, only, that I agree with Christine Angot: “we manage””
.
She ultimately regretted that it had distanced her from her sister Helena Noguerra:
“a childhood with an incestuous stepfather – I am not afraid to say it today – also distanced me from my sister, because my father-in-law is his father
.