Artist Olivia Ruiz reveals she was a victim of chemical submission

He is currently promoting the release of his latest album, Answerartist Olivia Ruiz confided in an interview published on February 25 by Sunday at the Tribunehaving been the victim of chemical submission by a collaborator.

“This environmental machismo still exists”

Questioned by the journalist about the macho behaviors she may have had to face during her career, the singer and writer returned to this episode dating back to “less than ten years”.

The perpetrator of this attack is said to have used GHB (known by the nickname “rape drug”), remember: “Things are still not entirely clear, but I know there was no sexual assault. I was sleeping, woke up and took it out right away. I was lucky enough not to be stunned enough and to be able to defend myself. »

In the columns of Tribunethe artist also mentioned a conductor “atrocious for those who hired young singers”and that he allegedly attempted to sexually assault him before a “courageous man, a technician” does not intervene. She was 17 then.

Then, his participation in the flagship talent show TF1, Academy of the Stars, in 2001, it would be marked with “the pressure I suffered pushed me to wear a rather suggestive outfit… Environmental machismo still exists”. In the entire industry, the artist believes, the “the myth of the ‘brainless’ singer” persists, proof that misogynistic constructions die hard.

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