In the Belgian Max magazine, Leo revealed for the first time the identity of the person who raped him in his youth.
Leo has spoken out for battered women throughout her career, even mentioning it in her songs and TV appearances. Having been abused herself at the age of 10, she had never publicly identified her attacker, preferring to keep this famous name quiet. Until today. Indeed, in the columns of a Belgian magazine Max, The 61-year-old singer made shocking revelations. According to him, it is his stepfather, Alberto Nogueira, the father of actress Helena Nogueira, with whom Leo’s mother lived.
“Understand… My life is a daily struggle. There are mornings (where) getting up and making coffee is the end of the world,” he explained, before lamenting his current relationship with his sister. “Because childhood with an incestuous stepfather, I’m not afraid to say today, also alienated me from my sister, because my stepfather is her father,” he said. And a few words to say about Kristin Angot, who was also raped in her youth. “All this never ends. It is only in this very small part that I agree with him. we can And I’m the sister of all the people who get by with that weight and almost nothing in the cat.”
Leo told his story in March 2022, in the columns of Télé-Loisirs. “I was raped by my relative when I was 10 years old in the back of my parents’ car. Digitally,” he said. And continue. “Quiet while my parents drove, next to my little sister [Helena Noguerra] who was 3 years old.’ After many years of denial, he then expressed this feeling. “No one ever called it rape. I put that word on it.” A word that once spoken, uttered, upsets and disrupts a lifetime. “Nothing has happened since then,” he continued.
Source: Le Figaro
