Last Tuesday (22), councilor Thammy Miranda (PL), 39, revealed that his mother, singer Gretchen, took him to be exorcised in the church during his adolescence.
In an interview with the podcast “PodC”, by presenter Celso Portiolli, Thammy said that Gretchen did not accept his relationship with a girl. At the time, the councilor still did not identify as a trans man.
“I was 16 or 17, that’s when she found out I was dating a girl. For her, it was a blow. And today I have a son, I understand, there are many worries […] She didn’t know how to deal with it and, at the time, she was in that staunchly evangelical phase, a phase when people seem to become a bit fanatical. She said: ‘No, we need to go to church, you’re going to undergo that exorcism because you have the spirit of homosexuality’. And I went, ”she told her.
Currently married to Andressa Ferreira, the politician said he was not angry with his mother and that the experience of “being exorcised” was a comic moment.
“It was the funniest thing in my life. First, a surreal embarrassment at being up front [no altar da igreja] with everyone looking at you. And then I went to the front […] and the pastor starts to exorcise, puts his hand on his head, shakes to one side, shakes to the other, they stamp their feet”, said Thammy, who continued.
“[Eu pensei] ‘Oh, my father in heaven, if you have to leave [o espírito da homossexualidade], leave soon, to go faster’. He asked the name of the spirit and I looked at his face and said ‘Thammy’. Sounds like a joke, but I lived it. It shook and nothing came out”, laughed the alderman.
Finally, the politician, who is now an evangelical, only agreed to go to church “to be exorcised” on one condition.
“I agreed with my mother that I would go and that if nothing came out ‘you’re going to stop bothering me with this because it’s my reality, it’s who I am’. And that was it. Then at the church they told me to come back seven more Tuesdays and we never went again”, she concluded.
A CNN got in touch with Gretchen to find out if the artist will comment on the subject, but has not yet received a response.
Source: CNN Brasil

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