Singer Lio claims she was raped by her stepfather when she was a child

“It took me many years to put the word ‘rape’ to what happened to me, I was raped other times afterwards, because I didn’t put the word to the first one. ” In a long interview with the Belgian magazine Max, to be released on Saturday March 16, singer Lio claims to have been raped by her stepfather, Alberto Nogueira, also the father of singer and actress Helena Noguerra, when she was 10 years old. The latter had not reacted publicly to the accusations made by his daughter-in-law on Friday evening.

The singer had already revealed, In an interview with Tele-Leisure in 2021, having been raped by a family friend, but without naming her attacker. “I was raped by a relative when I was 10 years old in the back of my parents’ car. Digitally. Quietly, while my parents were driving, next to my little sister”she declared to the magazine.

“My life is a daily struggle”

The singer also returned to the psychological consequences of this rape. “My life is a daily struggle. There are mornings to get up and make coffee, it’s the end of the world.” She adds : “All of this never ends. It is only on this very small part that I agree with Christine Angot : “We manage”. And I’m the sister of all the people who get by with that weight and next to nothing in the kitty.”

She also regrets that her “Childhood with an incestuous stepfather” milk “away from my sister, because my stepfather is her father.” She also takes advantage of this interview to thank the “new generation of feminists” thanks to whom she learned to “love yourself”.