2023-09-15 20:44:00
“I had split her into two people: for me, there was my mother whom I really adored, and then there was the other. The other was the one she became when she had drunk. And I really despised her.”
During her childhood and adolescence, Camilla Gallapia grew up with an alcoholic mother. She recounts her daily life as the child of an alcoholic and the consequences of this situation in her comic strip Fille d’alcoolo, published by Larousse in 2023.
When she was nine or ten years old, Camilla discovered that her mother was alcohol dependent through her big sister who tells her: “Mom has a problem with alcohol, but don’t worry, it’s over.”. However, for Camilla, this is where the story of her mother’s alcoholism begins: “once I saw what was happening at home, I saw everything.” Even if the little girl doesn’t understand everything regarding alcoholism, she knows that it is “something very bad, very ugly and very poorly considered.” Even though his mother was very loving, one day alcohol took over and the roles were reversed.
For Camilla Gallapia, female alcoholism is located in the space of the home: “at home, it was really behind closed doors, at home”. On a daily basis, the girl’s mother sleeps a lot. Meanwhile, Camilla searches for the bottles she hides around the house to stop her from drinking more. “I was lucky enough to live in a home where there was no violence at all but it’s something that might have (…)
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