Victoria Canal has shared a statement revealing her experiences with sexual abuse and grooming in the music industry.
The lauded songwriter is a bold talent, winning an Ivor Novello award, performing alongside Coldplay on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage, and completing work on her debut album ‘Slowly, It Dawns’.
Turning 27 this week, Victoria Canal decided to offer “a gift to myself” by posting a revelatory statement on social media, focussing on her experiences as a woman in music. https://www.profitableratecpm.com/qtq16tgdg?key=a26faa0f4ecc9c50b25af7b8b43ea6e9
The statement recalls being groomed by a “very powerful, decades-older man” in the music industry, who invited her on her first professional opportunity.
The individual is unnamed, but appears outwardly to be “loving, charismatic, and principled” but hides a “history of incredibly damaging behaviour”.https://www.profitableratecpm.com/qtq16tgdg?key=a26faa0f4ecc9c50b25af7b8b43ea6e9
During long walks in the early stages of their professional relationship this person “slowly and surely” began to introduce “sexual topics”. Victoria Canal states that he could insist she slept in his bed, that he would touch her without consent while sleeping on the bunk of the tour bus, and that he would take pictures of her “without my awareness or consent”.
Describing being “isolated” in an unfamiliar environment, Victoria Canal eloquently describes the “terrorising confusion of grooming”.https://www.profitableratecpm.com/qtq16tgdg?key=a26faa0f4ecc9c50b25af7b8b43ea6e9
“The truth is,” she writes, “that I couldn’t go on hiding this part of me.”
Find her statement in full below: