Armando Gama’s widow explains the singer’s illness and domestic violence: “I don’t want 67 years of age reduced to three months” – Nacional

Barbara Barbosa, widow Armando GamaExplain the features of domestic violence cases that led to to arrest the musician in 2020. For this, he broke the silence and gave an interview to Manuel Luis Josha where he tried to prove that the change in the musician’s behavior had occurred mainly because of the disease that ended up killing him.

“He told me, ‘Since you accused me of domestic violence, you’ll know what this is. He pinned me to the sofa and gently punched me on the head. Then he grabbed me over my neck. A little terrifying’.”Barbara said in a “teaser” to promote the interview on TVI, but then ended up trying to justify that it was cancer that changed the singer and pushed him to act in domestic violence.

Barbara, whose age difference was 34 years with Armando, detailed the behavior of the artist, who died last January, a cancer victim: “He showed jealousy from time to time. He had office colleagues who were men and we worked in pairs. The demonstration could take an hour or so. two and a half hours and He said: Where are you? Why do you take so long? Which colleague are you with? [A violência] First it was very slow, it was only occasional poses, after the second to the third it was already starting to grow faster, accelerating“.

“It was psychological violence, but it wasn’t insults to me, he was having such a hard time dealing with decolonization. There was a day when he forbade me from leaving the house for work. Then there were the insults to the politicians associated with decolonization. He was holding me and making me listen. I said, “Either you stop or I’m going to the guest room because I have to work.” The next day I asked myself why I went, I couldn’t rememberHe explained, adding: “I counted the various physical factors that were happening to Armando and the psychiatrist told me it was a sign of a brain tumor: everything that was cold, he felt cold, he began to forget the letters, ‘He knew by heart, he smelled out of nowhere.'”

Finally, he spoke of his complaints: “He left the house by order of the court, and was forbidden to come within 500 meters of me. (…) I made a huge mistake, I never thought it would be made public. Three complaints were filed and the matter was never known, only when it was brought to trial. I thought no one knows. My idea wasn’t to break up, but to go through therapy to get back to the way it was. (…) I don’t want you to sum up Armando in three months of his life when he was 67 years old. It is unfair to judge his life for an attitude that was delicate and motivated by illness“.