She never spoke about it, until 2020. Date on which her book, “Cindy Sander, from shadow to light”published by Editions Number 7. A book in which she evokes her difficult childhood, in particular because of her uncle. A complicated past on which she decided to return during her time at Sam Zirah.
The journalist reminds the candidate to “The New Star” of the 2008 edition: “You say ‘I experienced sexual touching from one of my uncles. Being very small, today I talk about it openly. I even forgave him for saying. He died.” “So this sexual abuse is from an uncle who passed away today. Since many years. Mom liked to go to their house for a little coffee and there, I am small, very small. I’m really very young, and I don’t understand what’s going on”she recalled, still upset by the situation.
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Later, Enzo’s mother indicates how his uncle proceeded for several years: “The first time he brings me back to the living room, the moms are in the kitchen drinking coffee. And he brings me back to the living room and he starts touching me“. While her mother loved to dress her like a pretty little girl, Cindy Sander will then refuse to wear dresses: “As a little girl you don’t realize […] mom put me in little frilly dresses, I cried at home because I no longer wanted to wear skirts to go up there, whereas as a little girl we love little dresses”.
If the 45-year-old artist reveals that this happened for several years, she never dared to speak up, in order to protect her mother. “For me it has been years of pain. As much through bullying at school as sexual abuse where I tell myself that because I wanted to preserve the people I loved around me I didn’t. said”she confides before revealing that the release of her book was very hard on her family: “and it was very hard for my family when my book came out because a lot of people in my family didn’t believe me, except my mom”.
His family didn’t want to believe it…
Sam Zirah, shocked to hear this, then asked her why Cindy Sander’s family did not want to believe her, when she is now an adult. “Because maybe some people in my family thought I wanted to make a splash with this little game”she thought.