The Belgian singer returned to the public revelation of her homosexuality in the press, without her agreement.
“It’s a bit of a cold shower.” Interviewed on the show seven to eightthis Sunday evening, Angèle returned to a painful moment in her life.
At the end of 2019, when her career was in full swing, a people magazine published, on the front page, stolen photos of the Belgian singer and her now ex-girlfriend, comedian Marie Papillon. Clichés, which reveal to everyone the bisexuality of the Belgian artist, still unknown to his family and his relatives at the time.
“It was one step too many”
The interpreter of Brussels, I love you reveals the emotion caused by this outing suddenly: “Unfortunately, I was expecting a love affair with a woman to make noise even today. But it’s true that it was one step too many for me. I said to myself : ‘Oula, there we enter into my intimacy”, she confides to our colleagues.
“Beyond revealing the love story that I am living, I found it extremely violent,” she recalls.
The Belgian singer also notes a form of hypocrisy on the part of the media: “[Les médias] said: ‘Wow we think that’s great, we’re for the LGBT’. Corn outer someone against their will, this is absolutely not a pro-LGBT approach. It’s very serious in what it sends as a message”, denounces the Belgian singer.
During the interview, Angèle recounts having filed a complaint. A complaint that she and her partner at the time won: “I donated the money to associations”, indicates the artist.
The reaction of his relatives
Faced with these sudden revelations, Angèle had to announce her relationship to her family, who until now had not been aware of her homosexuality. “My parents are more than benevolent and above all it doesn’t matter to them who I fall in love with. But I told them. It lasted 30 seconds, they said to me: “Ah ok, very good” and they were delighted with the meet”, recalls the young woman.
If the singer considers having been very lucky in the face of the openness of her family, she confides however that it was more difficult to reveal to her grandmother, Mamie Pilou. “The generation does a lot of things. My grandmother, all her life she was told that ‘homosexuality was bad’, so how can we ask her to think otherwise?” Asks Angèle. An announcement rich in emotion also discussed in his Netflix documentary.
And to conclude: “This is where we realize that people can have flexibility but obviously, you have to go with the right words and in the right way.”
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