“Two years ago I realized I had been raped. I put that word there. And nothing has happened since then. » In 2022, in an interview with Tele-leisure, singer and actress Lio thought back to the trauma of rape she suffered when she was a child. Chilling confidences: “ I was raped by a relative of the family when I was 10 years old in the back of my parents’ car. Digitally. In silence, while my parents drove, next to my little sister [Helena Noguerra, NDLR] who was 3 years old ».
A life ruined by an incestuous stepfather
In a long interview with the Belgian magazine Maximumout this Saturday, Lio reveals the identity of her rapist: her stepfather, Alberto Nogueira. The latter, also the father of Helena Noguerra, had lived with her mother since she was very little. She confides: “Why am I so suspicious, that I have so many firewalls, that I prepare like a krav maga fight every time I go out? » Shocked, the singer continues: “Understand… My life is a daily struggle. There are mornings (where) getting up and making coffee is the end of the world. Because a childhood with an incestuous stepfather – I’m not afraid to say it today – also distanced me from my sister, because my stepfather is her father. Everything never ends. »
This awareness late it was possible thanks to the movement #Me too and to all the feminist readings that nourished the artist. “Thanks to this new generation of feminists, I’ve been a phoenix, but I’m not done yet. It takes a lifetime. And until we love ourselves, we don’t love others. Until we trust each other…” For several years, Lio has not minced words about patriarchy and never misses an opportunity to affirm her feminist conscience. Until recently you spoke about the Depardieu case and denounced an environment in which “everyone knows and no one says anything”.
The entire interview can be found Saturday in Max magazine.
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