Brussels Pop Icon Lio Reveals Childhood Rape by Stepfather: Impact on Life and Relationships

2024-03-16 12:52:17

Brussels. The Portuguese-Belgian singer Lio, pop icon of the eighties in France and Belgium, claims that when she was 10 years old she was raped by her stepfather, the musicologist Alberto Nogueira and also father of the actress Helena Nogueira, according to what she said this Saturday in a interview published in the Belgian magazine Max.

“It took me many years to put the word ‘rape’ to what happened to me, they raped me other times later because I didn’t use that word the first time,” Lio, known for hit songs like ‘Le Banana Split’, said in the interview. (1979), with which he made his debut on the musical scene, or ‘Amoureux solitaires’ (1980).

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The artist, who emigrated with her mother to Belgium when she was a child following being born in Portugal, had already said in 2022 that she was raped by “a person close to the family” when she was little, but without revealing that it was her stepfather. .

“I was raped by a person close to the family when I was 10 years old in the back of my parents’ car… In silence, while my parents were driving, next to my little sister (Helena Nogueira), who was three years old” , he stated in his 2022 confession, in the French magazine Télé-Loisirs.

In this Saturday’s interview, Lio regrets that her “childhood with an incestuous stepfather” has distanced her from her sister Helena Nogueira, whose stage name changed her last name to Noguerra, and who, apart from being an actress, has also been a singer and television presenter. in France, the country of which he has nationality, along with the Belgian.

Lio and Helena Noguerra are sisters on their mother’s side, but they have two different biological fathers: the man whom Lio accuses of having raped her in her childhood is Alberto Nogueira, biological father of Helena Noguerra, but stepfather of the complainant.

The singer explained that the psychological consequences of that sexual assault that she denounces still last to this day: “My life is a daily struggle. There are mornings when I get up, make myself a coffee and it’s the end of the world.”

And he asked himself: “Why am I so suspicious, why do I have so many firewalls, why do I prepare like a Krav Maga fight every time I go out?”

Lio also thanked the feminist movement for its work in recent years and stated that she has been able to remake herself as a person thanks to the new generations of activists.

“I’ve been a phoenix, but I’m not done yet. It takes a lifetime (to recover). And as long as we do not love ourselves, we do not love others,” said the singer, whose birth name is Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos.

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