Alanis Morissette: «Raped at the age of 15. And nobody listened to me “

“I have been raped by a group of men when I had just 15 years“. The shock confession is signed Alanis Morissette, who publicly recounted the episode for the first time in his life. “Why am I only talking about it now?” Before nobody listened to me“, Said the Canadian singer born in 1974 in”Jagged“, a new one HBO docufilm directed by Alison Klayman and presented to Toronto Film Festival.

«I repeated to myself that I was consenting, but every time there were those who reminded me that at that age there is no consensus, you are still one girlAdded Alanis, who did not disclose the identity of his rapists and recalled how much work he did on himself to elaborate such a trauma. “I needed them years of therapy to admit to myself that, inside me, there had been some kind of victimization”.

The pop star also takes sides in defense di all women who are accused of wait too long before denouncing certain episodes. “I often hear”why did they spend 30 years before speaking?“. Actually the problem is the opposite: no one listened to them. Or they were threatened, or their family was. In short, it is not the women who wait, but rather our culture who does not listen ».

“Me too at the time I confided with some people, my words though they fell into the void», Underlined Alanis, who unfortunately will not be present at the first of the documentary. “In the future there will certainly be other occasionsReplied the director. On the other hand, he knows how much the singer-songwriter is sensitive to the topic: “Almost all women in the music business have been assaulted, harassed or raped»

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“It’s an omnipresent aspect, more in music than in cinema», Revealed Alanis last year to Sunday Times. “If I had not a whole team of therapists all my life, I don’t think I would be today still here».