Anitta got here ahead with an allegation of sexual assault in 2020 after she began feeling stress from a Brazilian journalist.
Whereas talking to Harper’s Bazaar for an interview revealed on Tuesday, the Envolver singer opened up about feeling compelled to talk out about being sexually assaulted as a young person after a journalist on Twitter alluded to it.
“I felt so mad that this man felt that he knew one thing about me that might harm me,” Anitta mentioned of the journalist. “I do not like when folks attempt to threaten me or say, ‘Oh, I do know this and that about you.’ Oh actually? Go there. Say it. If I do not say it earlier than you, I actually do not care.”
The 30-year-old remembered how listening to different girls discuss abuse made her really feel much less remoted and he or she wished to do the identical for different survivors.
“It was like once I created my character, Anitta, I simply wished this girl that no person might f**ok with. As a result of within the second, you continue to blame your self; you assume that for those who behaved in another way, that would not occur to you,” she added.
The Brazilian pop star, actual title Larissa de Macedo Machado, alleged that she was sexually assaulted by an abusive boyfriend when she was 14 or 15 throughout an episode of her 2020 Netflix docuseries Anitta: Made in Honório.
Speaking to the digital camera, Anitta defined within the present how the alleged incident remodeled her life.
“For all of you asking yourselves how Anitta was born, that is how. She was born out of my want and have to be a courageous girl,” she said. “One who nobody might ever hurt, who nobody might ever convey to tears, whose emotions nobody might ever harm, who might discover a approach out of any scenario?… ?that is how I created that character.”
