It is with a heavy heart that Lio chose to speak on Saturday March 16, 2024 in the columns of the Belgian magazine Max. The famous singer returned to the rape of which she was allegedly the victim when she was only 10 years old. “It took me many years to put the word ‘rape’ to what happened to me. I was raped other times later, because I didn’t say anything about the first one.”, she declared at first. The interpreter of The Banana Split had already revealed that he had been the victim of touching as a child in the back of a car. She then designated a family friend. “I was raped by a relative when I was 10 years old in the back of my parents’ car. Digitally. Quietly, while my parents were driving, next to my little sister [Helena Noguerra]”she declared in 2021 in an interview with Tele-Leisure. This time, she named the one who allegedly abused her. This is his father-in-law, Alberto Nogueira, the father of his sister Helena.
Lio: “There are mornings to get up and make coffee, it’s the end of the world”
“I discovered two years ago that I was raped at the age of 10. Before, I just said ‘he’s a big idiot, friend of my parents, who took advantage of me for 40 minutes'”, she said. Finally, she realized, with the liberation of the words of certain women, that she had been the victim of rape. This attack would have had terrible consequences on his life. “A childhood with an incestuous stepfather – I’m not afraid to say it today – also took me away from my sister, because my stepfather is her father”, she again lamented. Today, she explains that it is not easy to move forward. “My life is a daily struggle. There are mornings when I get up and make coffee, it’s the end of the world. It all never ends. It is only on this very small part that I agree with Christine Angot : ‘we manage’.” The 61-year-old singer wanted to thank the “new generation of feminists” thanks to whom she learned to “love each other”.