Actress Maria Eduarda Carvalho, 39, used her social media to report a sexual abuse suffered when she was 12 years old and criticize President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) for saying that he “painted a climate” with Venezuelan girls. “He didn’t paint a mood, he painted a crime,” said the artist.
Currently on the air on “Cara e Coragem” (Globo), Maria Eduarda begins her story by showing a photo of herself at age 12 and says that her attacker was “well over 40”. “He was a family man, he had a 4-year-old son and a girlfriend. I had faith in Christ, but I doubt that Jesus would bless the way he looked at me,” she says.
“One day, he surprised me alone in the room and stuck his tongue in my ear and sucked on my ear. I, completely stunned, couldn’t resist. I felt dirty, it felt like I had been stamped with the seal of impurity and no longer I could no longer be part of the little group of girls my age. Little did I know that the worst was yet to come.”
In the video, the actress claims that, one night, she woke up to this man touching her breasts. “Breasts of a 12-year-old girl,” she points out. “When I understood what was happening, I turned on my stomach to stop that touch. And he climbed on top of me and, incomprehensibly excited, started rubbing his body hard against mine. I screamed, screamed for my mother, who came to my help.”
Maria Eduarda says that this story “haunted her like a ghost”, but that the marks would be infinitely greater if she couldn’t count on her mother’s help. “Thousands of girls can’t! And they are currently held hostage by men like the president who believe he may have ‘painted a climate’. For our bodies, for the bodies of our daughters, it’s not possible to relativize”.
The actress cites a statement by President Jair Bolsonaro, candidate for reelection, in which he claims to have “painted a mood” with “little girls aged 14 or 15” during a visit to São Sebastião, on the outskirts of the Federal District. Other artists have also spoken out against the declaration, such as presenters Xuxa Meneghel and Luciano Huck.
After the negative repercussion, Bolsonaro said that his words were distorted and that “he has always fought pedophilia, he has always been against the Venezuelan regime”. “The PT is trying to disqualify me. It distorted, as if I were a person who entered that house with other interests”.
Many artists sent messages of support to Maria Eduarda through social networks after her report: “Thank you for the courage and voice”, said Drica Moraes; “dear, I hug you tight, thank you for sharing! May our country get rid of men like that”, said singer Zélia Duncan; “It happened to me. I know your pain, I cry with you. I’m so sorry”, completed Astrid Fontenelle.
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