«At 16 I was raped in the school bathrooms. Now I have made peace with myself and I want to marry Lodovica”

Anger is not enough for you won the gold record. And Big Mama, real name Marianna Mammone, is happy. Indeed very happy. Like when she managed to speak at the UN Glass Palace about body shaming and bullying. And you also wrote a book about what happened to her, about the violence she suffered. “There were so many pieces of my story that needed to come out.” A book that she, she tells Corriere della Sera, her parents must not read. «I invite them not to do it, the truth hurts. And when I grew up, when I faced the disease, I understood how important they are. They don’t need to see their mistakes in black and white. They already know them. My father Italo knows that he spent all day working. And mother Angelina, after my grandmother died, she found herself raising two children and not knowing how to do anything. They are the best parents in the world, but we are all human beings and we make mistakes.”

His carefree years, he still tells Corsera, continued until primary school. Then that’s it. But she made peace with her older brother Giandomenico while the professor who mocked her never apologized. Not even now even though he wrote her a message. «I ignored it. That teacher doesn’t realize that he has started an avalanche of negative comments and jokes from his classmates.”

Ornella Vanoni does not participate in “Una Quale Centomila”: «If I go I will die». How is the 89-year-old singer doing?

Violence

At 16 she was raped in the school bathroom by a boy. Today with strength and courage «I would repeat to him step by step what happened. For him, and for many like him, women are a commodity. Since then it has happened to me other times that they tried to abuse me, but I managed not to succumb. The last one was three or four years ago, I was drunk and someone put me in her car with the excuse that he was taking me home. He didn’t go through with it but the next day I was bruised. I haven’t drunk since.”

Girlfriend

She is only one exam away from graduating but music is her real victory. And she must also say thanks to Elodie who believed in her at Sanremo. Then she also believed in Amadeus. The best compliment? From her myth Loredana Berté: «You are very strong». Private life. Big Mama is in love with Maria Lodovica Lazzerini. «Until four years ago I had had relationships with men, with girls only affairs. With her everything is different.” And now she is ready to get married too. «Mom says that after I graduate I will be able to do whatever I want. As soon as I finish university I’ll propose to her.”

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