“I was the victim of a bastard who raped me, beat me to death and left me on a shitty street in Turin. Every six hours, a femicide every six hours. Not to mention mistreatment like in Palermo. That’s why I stopped doing it.” Silence. i am not meat i am not meat Loredana Bertewho, at a concert in Palmi, in the province of Reggio Calabria, a few kilometers from his hometown of Bagnara Calabra, wanted to express his solidarity with the victims of sexual violence following the gang rapes of Palermo and Caivano and join the social network media campaign i am not meat to the applause of the audience.
The story of “Verissimo”
The singer had told Verissimo about her terrible experience in 2020. “I was raped when I was 16,” she said Silvia Toffanin – I had evenings with him Small collars (Rita Pavone’s Corps de Ballet, ed.). We were on a tour of Italy Don Lurio In the evening I was the only virgin in the group and everyone tried to convince me by telling me about a person who was madly in love with me.
the violence
“After a month I decided to go for a drink with him – continued the singer – He took me to a slaughterhouse apartment, the girls have to be very careful. When I heard that he padlocks the door, I got scared and scared. I wanted to go outside but he beat me and raped me. I miraculously managed to get out with my clothes torn and a stopped taxi: I passed out and he took me to the hospital.
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Report immediately
However, Loredana Bertè decided to keep this story of violence to herself and not even tell it to her family: “Only my friends knew, I couldn’t tell anyone, not even my mother, because I should have taken the beatings from her. “But it was a mistake, because you have to report the first slap in the face.” A painful experience that radically shaped the singer’s relationship with men, as the artist herself says: “For years I didn’t let anyone get close to me.” I was traumatized .”