The son of Elis Regina, João Marcelo Boscoliwas one of the interviewees Conversation with Bial last Friday the 15th, together with Beth, daughter of Tom Jobim, and Roberto de Oliveira, director of the documentary Elis e Tom Só Nunca de Ser Com Você.
At one point, presenter Pedro Bial addressed the death of Elis Regina and quoted a sentence attributed to producer André Midani: “Elis knowingly and decisively killed himself” (Elis Regina died on January 19, 1982 at the age of 36 .A Caused of death was disclosed a Overdose).
Elis Regina in a photo from 1973 Photo: Archive/Estadão
Bôscoli then commented on the statement: “I think his theory is very intelligent, but it is just a theory.” I think it is a series of actions, several things, several years of suffering, of being abandoned, of living in an environment where there are only men and where everyone wants to “eat” them up in every direction. Elis didn’t kill herself, she died of anaphylactic shock. “What she had wouldn’t be enough to overdose,” he continued.
“It’s a great sadness to see where the world is going and to recognize that. I agree that she felt a very great existential emptiness when she realized that, in her opinion, there was no longer a great album to record.”
“She did what the Beatles did, except she wasn’t a band, she was a person. But it’s not intentional, it’s not suicide. Elis Regina, the singer, people can talk. But Mrs. Elis, my mother, would never kill herself with three children at home. Never,” emphasized Bôscoli.
When asked how many times he had seen the film, Elis Regina’s son replied: “Once. I can’t watch it that often…It takes a lot out of me emotionally too.”
João Marcelo Bôscoli in the photo from 2016 Photo: Marcio Fernandes/Estadão