Singer Mika talks about bullying. The interpreter of we are gold spoke Saturday of memories of being teased as a child at a London school.
“It’s one of the first days of school,” he recalled. 50′ inside. “I’m wearing pink shorts with small polka dots, with a little shirt that I had chosen and I think I even had a bow tie.”
“The boy dresses perfectly to fit in perfectly with his classmates,” he summarized with humor. “I was ridiculous in his eyes, but also because I think I was different.”
“As if it’s your fault.”
The singer, who has just announced a tour and whose sixth album is expected at the end of the year, continues: “(Bullying) affects me enormously because I suffered from it for much of my childhood. Especially when the problems started not only with the people around me in class, but also with the teacher.
“That’s when everything turned upside down. I could contextualize the fact that there were other kids doing it. But when it’s someone who is in a position of power and authority, you don’t see it as bullying. You see it.” As if it were your fault.”
And to insist on the consequences of what I experienced: “I had a kind of dyslexia that increased a lot. I could no longer read or write (…) To this day I can no longer read music. I work in music but I don’t read music. I do everything ear”.
This scourge has once again been at the center of public debate since the suicide of a 15-year-old teenager on September 5 in Poissy. The Versailles prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into bullying.
Source: BFM TV
