Gessica Notaro arrived in Verissimo’s studios with all her strength and courage to tell that ordeal that represented the story with Edson Tavares, the man who scarred her with acid in 2017, after she finally had found the strength to leave him.
Before meeting her ex-boyfriend Gessica she had not had an easy life: first the loss of her father due to a tumor when she was twenty, then, only 8 months after that tragedy, the suicide of her brother Bruno, who did not he withstood the pain: “It was a hard blow for everyone, worse than the pain of my father’s death because no one expected such a gesture”.
Then in 2013 you met Tavares: during the interview it is impossible not to noticethe clarity and detachment that Gessica maintains in the story of the turbulent story with the man who scarred her. But that for her ex-boyfriend was never true love: Notaro admitted that she had fallen into the trap of a narcissist.
“ It was like a spell “: this is how Gessica described that relationship which at first seemed unique and special . Next to her she had found a perfect man, who filled her with attention and made her feel loved and pampered. Then, once the defenses were down, Edson showed himself for what he really was:
A very different man had emerged from the one I had known (…). He relied on my feelings of guilt, and in small and large things he made me believe it was my fault and I began to question my perception of reality.
From there the betrayals began, then, once discovered, Tavares was back the caring man she Gessica she thought she had fallen in love with. And as a manipulator he had begun to use all his weapons to win her back, even asking her to marry him:
This person never raised his hands to me, I want to specify, but he was cynical in many shades. Then one day I woke up from the spell and wondered: this is the man my father would want next to me for my life
He did not accept my no: either you will be mine or anyone else’s.
After the breakup Edson began to follow her everywhere: eight long months of stalikg , including complaints that have always been underestimated:
I was riding with a full-face helmet because I expected such a gesture. Then I let my guard down in the end because they made me feel like a fool, even my mother. But on January 10, 2017, a date chosen ad hoc, when my brother died, he suddenly appeared and gave me this beautiful gift.
A devastating story, which despite the coldness of the Notaro, has caused terror emergenciesof that moment: the screams in the hope that someone could help her, aware that the acid would take effect in a few minutes and that there was little time to intervene. After the accident there was a long and painful path waiting for her, made up of surgery and a lot of hope:
Sometimes incredible things happen in life, which begin as a tragedy that then evolve over time that can give unexpected things. Today I have one eye covered but I see more than before. (…) I am in love and happy: what I used to be was not love, today’s one is, so it was easy to find and trust it.
