Lio was the victim of domestic violence in the late 90s. A period that was a real nightmare for the singer and mother of six children. Fortunately, the artist was able to count on the help of her sister Helena Noguerra who did everything to get her out of this hell.
Lio has been through hell. The 59-year-old singer will never forget the beatings she received from artist Alexis Zad who she was in a relationship with in the late 90s. A nightmare for the interpreter of Banana Split who now fights for reporting domestic violence and help those, like her, who have known suffering and distress. Very committed to the cause of women, the mother of Nubia, Igor, Esmeralda, Garance, Léa and Diego hopes to make her voice heard. On March 29, the ex of Alain Chamfort will thus be in the credits of the TV movie She saved me on M6 inspired in particular by the true story of Laura Rapp. In 2018, the latter survived an attempt at femicide. Her husband tried to strangle her in front of their little girl. A blood-chilling story that reminds Lio of the violence she suffered several years ago.
Lio faced with the violence of his companion
Even if at the time, Lio had filed a complaint against his companion, she delayed getting to the police station. “Like many, I wondered what I had done wrong to piss him off like that.she confided in the columns of Gala. I was also taking on the suffering of this man who was like me an exile. From the moment you receive the first blow, if you don’t say to yourself ‘that’s intolerable, the limit has been crossed, stop!’, violence enters. She surges. And it’s very difficult to get out of it because there is a mental washout. There is a lot of work that is put in place to isolate us, diminish us, humiliate us“. Fortunately, the singer was able to count on the support of her sister, Helena Noguerra, who did everything to open her eyes to the violence of this companion.
Lio saved by his sister
“It was my sister, Helena, who helped me a lothe revealed. She saw things she didn’t understand, so she talked about it around her and approached an association for battered women. We explained to him. He was told the first thing I would do was deny, minimize, take it easy“. Thanks to the initiative of her younger sister, Lio was able to become aware of the danger she was incurring. However, it was due to the escalation of violence from her spouse that she took the plunge. “I only managed to file a complaint when he started kicking me while i was breastfeeding the twins. Because I was afraid for them“, she explained, revealing to have known”another hell“. “The fight with the police, with the filing of a complaint, with the family court judge… We’re not doneshe lamented. As Christine Angot says, we manage, it’s true, but it’s so long, it’s so violent, so difficult. Finding resources in itself is important, but I think you still have to be part of a social and political fight“. A painful period.