After her interview with the Belgian magazine Max was distorted by several media, Lio spoke out. And it was on Instagram that the singer wanted to “dot the i’s”.
Lio is therefore part of the clan of survivors. In an interview published Friday March 15, 2024 in the paper version of the Belgian magazine Max, the singer opened up about a rape she suffered when she was ten years old. She also reveals the moral stigmata that she still retains today, the impression of “the end of the world, certain mornings”, and the happier days when she feels able to fight, notably thanks to the new generations of feminists, who, she says, helped her to be a “phoenix”.
“It took me many years to put the word ‘rape’ to what happened to me, I was raped other times afterwards, because I didn’t put the word on the first one”, she confided. With great sincerity, undoubtedly to help her fighting sisters as they helped her, she also recalled sexual violence suffered on the seat of a car as a child, while her little sister was nearby and the The driver, his father-in-law, was therefore in the front of the car.
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Lio about his father-in-law: “I have more bananas to peel with him”
This episode of traumatic sexual violence was unfortunately not the only one in Lio’s childhood, who admits to “also having bananas to peel” (in reference to his very famous song) with his stepfather. However, it’s not him she was talking about in the interview. And after her words were distorted by several media, she wanted to recall it on her Instagram account, in a publication dated Saturday March 16, 2023.
« Following the publication yesterday […] I want to dot the i’s. I was raped. I was in the back of the car. The steering wheel was in the front, It was obviously not my stepfather who could have committed this rape. It was a friend of his who worked in the same company. […] I have other bananas to peel, but I won’t do it here. Thank you for your sisterhood because the facts are there “, she wrote, always bluntly.
Camille Bonvalet has an interest in societal subjects and feminist issues. She is also passionate about literature. Versatile, she appreciates the prose of Flaubert as much as that of Michel…