Bushido
Rapper apologizes after harassment allegations
Bushido apologizes to the molested girl and his wife.
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After the harassment allegations, Bushido “as the father of daughters” apologizes not only to the girl, but also to his wife.
Rapper Bushido (42) apologizes in a personal statement on Instagram for his past behavior towards girls and women after a video was posted of harassment allegations against him. “Yes, what was shown there actually happened,” he says into the cell phone camera. And it shows him – regardless of who was still present.
Concerts and “towing girls” belonged to his “lifestyle” and “rap style” at the time, he admits in the video clip that he recorded while walking around in a garden. Bushido at that time had his “fame to want to crack the box. It was not about more,” he becomes clear elsewhere.
“I would like to apologize”
Rapper Cashmo (37) had previously published an old video that shows how Bushido harasses a girl in the presence of other men. “The video that was shown is not cool, I have to agree with my colleague Cashmo,” says Bushido into the cell phone camera. The way they talked and dealt with this girl and women in general is not okay, absolutely not, “explains Anis Ferchichi, as the musician was originally called. At that time, however, it was” the one for him the only possible way “was to deal with the girls after a concert.
“I would like to apologize to the girl. That is definitely not the way she deserves to be treated as a person, as a woman. This is my fault, my fault. I take personal responsibility for that,” said Bushido. “None of what was verbally done to this girl in the hotel room on my part is okay,” he says later in the video.
Today Bushido has daughters of his own
Bushido has been married to Anna-Maria Ferchichi (39) since 2012. The two currently have four children together, two girls and two boys. She brought another son into the marriage. She is currently pregnant again with triplets, three girls. Also with regard to his growing family, the rapper is refined in the apology video. Now, “with a few years under his belt”, his previous behavior is “absolutely not in order”.
As the father of daughters, he hopes “that my children, your children, your daughters, my daughters do not run into such people”. He’s currently doing a lot for it, and has been trying for a long time to shed a lot of the character and behavior that he used to display for many years. These efforts are important in order to develop as a person and to be able to face one’s own family. He wants to take responsibility, raise his children well – and respect his wife.
“My wife also had to suffer”
In the video, Bushido doesn’t just talk about the incident in the hotel room. “My wife also had to suffer for a long time from me, my character traits, my moods and the behavior patterns that I have trained myself over the years,” he says and adds: “I’m sorry about that too.” In this context, it is also good that this topic has been made public. “I would never talk again like 16 years ago.”
Direct answer to Cashmo
Then the rapper turns to Cashmo personally. He shouldn’t worry, Bushido won’t have the video deleted. However, Bushido doubts that the musician colleague wanted to educate people because of the way it was published. Cashmo only wanted to do “marketing” for itself.
Cashmo had let his followers know that he did Publish “reveal video” on YouTube as soon as he has 100,000 followers on Instagram.
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