Louane, Bilal Hassani, Clara Luciani, Christophe Willem… In recent years, many singing stars have revealed that they have been victims of school bullying. This is also the case of singer Mika. Saturday September 9, 2023, in an interview granted to 50′ insideon TF1the former coach of The Voice said: “I remember one of my first days at school in London. And I’m in pink shorts with polka dots with another little shirt that I had chosen and I think I even had a bow tie.“ With humor, this one dropped: “Perfect, the boy dresses in a perfect way to fit in perfectly with his colleagues.” More seriously, Mika assured that he was “ridiculous through their eyes”before adding that he was “different.” “It touches me enormously especially because I suffered from it in a certain way during a lot of my childhood. not only with people around me in the class, but also with a teacher“he indicated.
Mika: “You don’t see it as harassment”
Denigrated by one of his teachers, the 40-year-old artist explained: “That’s where everything got turned upside down because in my head I could more or less contextualize, even though it wasn’t nice, but I could contextualize the fact that there were other kids doing it. But when it’s someone in a position of power and authority who has to protect you… Well, you don’t see it as harassment. You really see it as if it’s your fault.” Over time, the one who was insulted, humiliated and beaten, told his story on the set of many shows. Tuesday, February 7, 2023, in C to youon France 5he had already said: “When I was little, I seemed too strange, with my red pants and my bow ties. The teachers hated me, the students too. At best, I was insulted.” Faced with Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine and her columnists, Mika had specified: “I was a rather socially isolated child. I was persecuted by other boys regarding my sexuality. At 8 years old, I knew nothing about this subject, it was not part of my identity. Children are formidable, they spot prey and I was in their line of sight. I was looking for solutions to get out of it, music protected me from all that.”
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