Overview

• Gigliola Zecchin, known as Canela, revealed the abuse in a conversation with Luis Novaresio, with a fragment released by A24.
• She linked the episode to the deprivation and fear of the wartime period in which she was left in an unfamiliar place.
• She described vivid sensory memories of the setting, including chickens, a chasing rooster, and the smell of onions.
• She said she had never told anyone about the abuse or worked on it in therapy, framing her silence as a form of self‑preservation.
• She noted lasting effects on her adult intimacy and said she would ask the man to kneel and apologize, unsure whether she would forgive him.