Anitta Reveals She Forced Herself To Go Public With Sexual Assault Past To Help Women Feel Less Isolated

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Anitta is a Brazilian popular superstar making a people connected the satellite with her modern twist connected the funky beats she grew up with. Born successful Rio de Janeiro, Brazil arsenic Larissa de Macedo Machado, Anitta, 30, has been making powerfulness moves successful the past decennary with respective Grammy nominations and 5 albums to her name. Unfortunately, her fierce, confident, and intersexual persona is simply a disguise to fell a heavy trauma from her past: She was sexually assaulted arsenic a 14 oregon 15-year-old teen and felt forced to archer her communicative due to the fact that a writer connected Twitter was alluding to it.

“I felt truthful huffy that this feline felt that helium knew thing astir maine that could wounded me,” she candidly told Harper’s Bazaar successful an interrogation published connected Tuesday, May 30.“I don’t similar erstwhile radical effort to endanger maine oregon say, ‘Oh, I cognize this and that astir you.’ Oh really? Go there. Say it. If I don’t accidental it earlier you, I truly don’t care.”

Anitta poses for ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ mag successful May 2023 (Photo: Emmanuel Sanchez Monsalve)

The “Girl From Rio” hitmaker besides praised the women earlier her who spoke astir their past intersexual assaults, which made her consciousness much comfy coming retired with her story. She besides said she hopes to animate different women to travel guardant with their stories.

“I transformed what happened past into thing that helped maine travel retired connected top, successful a amended place,” she emotionally explained to Harper’s Bazaar. “For each of you asking yourselves however Anitta was born, that’s how. She was calved retired of my tendency and request to beryllium a brave woman. One who nary 1 could ever harm, who nary 1 could ever bring to tears, whose feelings nary 1 could ever hurt, who could find a mode retired of immoderate situation … that’s however I created that character.”

She further added, “It was similar erstwhile I created my character, Anitta, I conscionable wanted this pistillate that cipher could f***with. Because successful the moment, you inactive blasted yourself; you deliberation that if you behaved differently, that wouldn’t hap to you.”

Anitta hopes her communicative helps different women consciousness comfy speaking astir their past intersexual assaults (Photo: Emmanuel Sanchez Monsalve)

And though fans whitethorn consciousness ace connected to Anitta, she admitted that the existent her is thing similar her signifier character. “I was like, if I person this behavior, cipher volition ever f*** with me,” she recalled. “Before anyone [else], I spell there: ‘Oh, I had sex. I did this. I did that.’ The existent me? I don’t person enactment for months and I don’t care. But Anitta would never. She f**** each day.”

Anitta made waves earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile she was the archetypal Brazilian vocalist to beryllium nominated for a Grammy successful 50 years. “For me, for the full state it’s similar we’re making past close now,” she gushed to E! News on Feb. 5. “Today I consciousness similar a victor ‘cause for me, winning oregon not, it’s already the biggest triumph to beryllium present portion of this large thing. So, I’m feeling similar a victor nary substance what.” Anitta was nominated for Best New Artist astatine the 65th GRAMMY Awards. Samara Joy took location the prize.

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