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Lucy Diakovska talks about her coming out: “Taboo topic in Bulgaria”
In the jungle camp, Lucy Diakovska speaks openly about her sexuality
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In the jungle camp, David Odonkor was completely surprised by the news that fellow camper Lucy Diakovska was a lesbian. That’s what got the ex-No Angels singer talking.
Even during the No Angels era, Lucy Diakovska was open about her homosexuality. The singer never wanted to make it a secret. Only ex-footballer David Odonkor was completely surprised by the news that his jungle camp colleague was into women. And so Diakovska began to talk on day nine at camp.
Jungle camp: Lucy Diakovska talks about her coming out
“I actually always was, but that was never an issue. Sure, we’re talking about the early 90s Bulgaria – a really taboo topic there,” said the singer. “I told my mother about it later – by fax from Germany! That was in 1999. It was five or six pages. The last sentence was: ‘If you think I can still be your daughter, then call me,'” she recalled. Three days later, her mother finally got back in touch .
Lucy’s father was initiated a little later. “I love women,” she told him decades ago. He also reacted well. The musician not only made headlines in the early noughties with her chart successes, but also with one of her relationships. In 2005 it came out that Diakovska and DSDS star Juliette Schoppmann were a couple. At the time, the “Bild” newspaper reported that the two women had moved into a house together. Friends confirmed at the time that it was love.
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Years later, however, Schoppmann rowed back. As a rule, she doesn’t comment on rumors, she told the “Berliner Zeitung” in 2012. “Maybe it would be better if I were a lesbian. Then maybe I would already be married and have children. But it’s just not like that, I’m straight. But nobody wanted to hear that,” says Schoppmann. Schoppmann is now in a relationship with comedienne Tahnee Schaffarczyk.
Lucy, on the other hand, recently revealed in the jungle camp that she had a partner but that it was complicated. Last year she explained the background to her love life in the emigrant show “Goodbye Germany”. “I’m just a difficult person,” she said. “Love rarely means more to me than anything else. Maybe I need these two or three more years. Maybe I have to turn 50 first. Hopefully I won’t be too old by then,” said Diakovska.
Sources: RTL / “Image” / “Berlin newspaper”
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