Target of attacks, Adnet says he doesn't regret revealing he was a victim of abuse in childhood.

247 - Comedian Marcelo Adnet commented again on sexual abuse who suffered during childhood and what has been happening to him since he revealed what happened and said that he is not ashamed for having revealed the abuse. “I would be ashamed to drive drunk, to run a red light, to not pay taxes. I am not ashamed of having been a victim of abuse,” Adnet said on Wednesday night (15), during an interview on the program Saia Justa, broadcast on the GNT channel. 

According to the comedian, he was only able to broach the subject with his family 25 years after suffering the abuse and after the death of one of the abusers, who was not a family member. “Many years later I managed to talk to my family about it. I spoke to my mother a few years ago because I didn't want to hurt my parents, as they were not to blame. I wanted to spare them that upset,” Adnet commented.

Adnet also used the interview, conducted via a live internet broadcast, to compare the abuses to the current pandemic situation. “I felt it’s almost like a pandemic, that we don’t confront these problems because it’s taboo. If it’s taboo, let’s face the taboo and talk about it. Despite the layers of protection for the abuser and the cruel layers of the internet, there is a safety net for those who report it,” said the comedian. 

Since revealing he suffered abuse in an interview with Veja magazine, Adnet has been the target of attacks on social media. In one case, allegedly perpetrated by a member of the military, the Brazilian Navy announced on its social media that it has opened an internal investigation into the attacks allegedly made by a member of the corporation. 

"When a boy is abused, they say he's a faggot, a queer, that he took it because he liked it. Of course, there's the fear of homophobic attacks. People use such a low tactic to shame the victim," he emphasized.