The singer, victim of cyberbullying for more than 3 years, has received more than 5,000 death threats. In the midst of legal proceedings, she says she is desperate for the inaction of the authorities.
In order to “show people what cyberbullying is”, the singer Hoshi shared on Twitter last week some of the thousands of messages of misogynistic, homophobic or grossophobic insults that she receives daily from Internet users.
The starting point for this wave of cyberbullying: a performance by the 26-year-old artist at the Victoires de la Musique, in 2020, during which she kissed one of her dancers on stage.
Invited this Wednesday morning of France Inter, Hoshi returned to the “psychological hell” that she has suffered without interruption for three years and expresses her fed up with the inaction of the authorities.
“We say to ourselves that it’s a message here and there and in fact no, the day after the Victories, and it was these messages there in a loop: ‘We will find your address’, ‘we will kill you ‘, ‘we are going to rape your mother'”, confides the singer.
And to add: “It’s been 5000 messages like that.”
“I cling to the music”
Strongly affected by this cyberbullying, Hoshi explains that she had to completely review her way of life. She was forced to move because her detractors had almost found her address and can no longer go out without being accompanied, nor having a normal sleep pattern.
“I can no longer go out alone by trauma. I’m afraid that out of 5000 messages there is one that can take action. It’s been 3 years since I slept before 6 am. Now I go to the studio at night because I’m too anxious,” she explains.
This daily hatred also had consequences on his health. Hoshi states that she has lost 10 kilos and that Ménière’s disease, from which she suffers, has worsened with the stress, which causes her to feel dizzy all the time and has loss of hearing.
So much so that the interpreter of Your sailor has already thought about ending his career in music. “I really thought about it more than once. But that would prove them right, so I cling to the music, because it’s the only thing that makes me feel good,” she says.
“We let these people die”
But Hoshi’s case is far from isolated and is sometimes even more serious. On January 7, Lucas, a 13-year-old schoolboy, committed suicide at his home in the Vosges, after being harassed because of his homosexuality.
“I cried, I was really devastated. I said to myself, they can’t already act for me who is in the media. […] It’s not that my daily life is that of many teenagers or adults. […] We let these people die,” Hoshi reacted.
For her part, the singer is engaged in legal proceedings. But, despite thousands of reported messages, only a few minors have been identified but will not be tried and one person will be heard in a trial scheduled for June. A verdict not sufficient for the artist who claims to lose more and more confidence in French justice.
“It’s horrible what I’m going to say but I almost feel like you have to be dead to make justice react. As long as people don’t act and it’s just threats, nobody takes it seriously but yet it kills from the inside,” she says.
And to conclude: “I’m desperate, I don’t know what to do anymore. What I would like is for the investigation to be reopened and for more people to be found and for us to set an example in France once and for all. for all so that maybe it demotivates some.”
