Two weeks after moms, it is dads who are honored on this Sunday, June 18, 2023. Many statements, messages, videos are flourishing on social networks on this sunny day. But for some, this day has a very special meaning. This is the case for Loana. The former reality TV candidate announced the death of her father a few days ago. Sad news, which “shocked” the forties who did not go to the funeral. “I had reconnected with him two years ago. He didn’t want to see me, and I respect his choice. I had it on the phone. He didn’t want to see me because he didn’t want me to see him the way he was. He was very sick, almost blind and he had gained weight. He said to me: ‘I want you to keep the image of me that you had’. I didn’t go because it was happening. For me, it’s still there. If he didn’t want me to go see him, I don’t want to see him as dead”she confided to our colleagues from Here is.
On his account instagramshe posted a video in which she pays tribute to him: “Happy birthday dad, I miss you”can we hear him say, his face and voice marked by emotion.
A difficult childhood
In his book, Sexism Storypublished in 2021, the BFF of Eryl Prayer had detailed the violence of the beatings of her father when she was younger. “It was complicated all the same”, she wrote. “When my mother was not there, my father would bang my head against the kitchen tiles to make me do the dishes. It was very violent […] These are not things that we really want to remember. I have a few flashes, but when I tell myself that it lasted for months! I think when I got home, I put myself in a mode: ‘He does what he wants to me and then I forget'”.
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