Brit winner Celeste was ‘too scared to report person’ she believed could endanger her life
Brit winner Celeste was ‘too scared to report person’ she believed could endanger her life
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Celeste Waite was afraid to report someone who she believed posed a threat to her life in case it wasn’t dealt with to the appropriate ‘level of severity’. The Strange singer revealed her fears while speaking at a Parliamentary session on misogyny in the music industry.
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Celeste, who won the Brit Award for Rising Star in 2020, said that women ‘need to feel safe’ in being able to share their experiences of violence or sexism. ‘Something that I experienced, completely separate and outside of the music industry, I wanted to report something so that it didn’t happen to other women,’ the 30-year-old singer shared.
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‘But I was really afraid to report it in case it wasn’t dealt with a level of severity that was due, and then I could experience some behaviours from this person who I could already deem to be a danger to my life, that then, they could come after me.
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‘And I feel that a lot of women within the music industry that experience these kinds of things and are very afraid, and they’re not necessarily protected once they bring something to people’s awareness, they do not have the trust that it will be dealt with appropriately.’.
Celeste rose to prominence in 2019 with EP Lately which landed on the iTunes chart and received support from Annie Mac, Elton John, and more. That same year she supported Michael Kiwanuka on tour and won the BBC Music Introducing artist of the year award.
