The shocking confession of Angeliki Iliadi about her relationship with Bambi Lazaridis was commented on by Katerina Kainourgiou and her team on Alpha’s morning show.
The singer admitted, 18 years after the businessman’s murder, that she suffered systematic psychological and physical violence from him, going as far as the hospital bed.
“She told harsh truths and I respect that she says she didn’t want her minor child to be hurt, which is why she hasn’t spoken for 18 years. But I think we’re not falling from the clouds to hear it,” Katerina Kainourgiou began to say.
“You want me to tell you what I remember? I was working as a reporter for Grigoris Arnaoutoglou, I was 18-19, I had just started and he had brought Angeliki Iliadi to a festive to sing. He says to me at one point the team “go and call the guest slowly to come in”. She was getting ready at the time and wanted to go to the toilet.
She says “where are the toilets?”, I say “let me escort you” and she comes up behind us. She says “no, no, me too”. She wouldn’t even let her go to the toilet on her own. I remember it and I shudder, it had made a very bad impression on me,” the presenter described to her colleagues immediately afterwards.
“This is talking about a violent man. Sometimes this overprotection that we see coming out can sometimes hide a violence. […] She has a right to speak her mind and she explained why she hasn’t done so for so many years. She felt ready and apparently she has discussed it with her son. We will never tell our truth, because we will think that the other person can’t answer,” Katerina Kainourgiou pointed out in the conversation that opened in the panel of her show.
What Angeliki Iliadi confessed for the first time
“I was living a very difficult situation and I had chosen not to say anything all these years, because my child was young. It was for me five years very difficult, psychologically. I was banned from seeing my family. I had experienced very bad abuse. I was a girl who was put in a situation without realizing it. I was abused both physically and psychologically.
The way this man left this life was very, very cruel. I didn’t think about what I had experienced over the years in the face of what this man went through. And it seemed too bad to say anything bad about him. When I came to, I started thinking about all the things I had been through… And hospitals…
I had tried so many times to leave, but there were threats. I had a baby in my arms and it was very difficult for me to do anything. That was very hard for a 24-year-old girl and not knowing if the next day would dawn. I didn’t speak up because I was afraid of them taking my child away from me, of them hurting my parents. There were such threats!”
There were such threats!
