Harassed at school, Clara Luciani has since taken her revenge

Clara Luciani did not have an easy childhood. At school and college, because of her tall height (she was 1m76 at 11 years old), she suffered mockery after mockery. The 29-year-old singer is now campaigning against bullying at school. In The world, this Saturday, September 25, she ensures that “bullied children develop other assets” in life. This was also the case since she immersed herself body and soul in music, which made her success. It was in high school where the young woman began to gain self-confidence and stand up to her detractors. His trick to overcome all that? “I cultivated my quirk and made it my signature. Even if the students laugh at me, they might as well give them material, I decided one day.”

In her adolescence, one day particularly marked her. The one where she landed in the schoolyard with a 1930s veil fascinator. “It was not missing: everyone giggled.” Except that the new Clara was not let down. “I didn’t care. Or rather that I was delighted: ‘Are you kidding? But look at you! All dressed the same. No daring. No originality. You dare nothing!’ And from that moment on, I started to be seen differently “, she told the World.

A teacher had flown to his aid

In addition to her strength of character, Clara Luciani was able to count on a very involved teacher, who put in their place the students who had dared to make fun of her in public. A certain Madame Murat, “a French teacher of extraordinary kindness”. “One day when the class taunted me, she said: ‘You can laugh. You will be less clever when you see Clara’s books in the window of the FNAC and all the bookstores.’ Those words… You can’t imagine the impact they could have had on me. “

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“A teacher’s sentence can turn a life upside down”, concluded Clara Luciani. A sentence that sounds like a call to teachers who witness school harassment in their class or school, and who prefer to remain silent.