In her documentary “My name is Charlotte” Vitaa returned to the burglary of which she was a victim in December 2023. A traumatic event which led the singer to question her career.
The worst was avoided but the tragedy left indelible traces. In the documentary “Vitaa: My name is Charlotte” broadcast this Friday, November 22 on TMC, a film directed by Matthieu Valluet which retraces her journey, the singer Vitaa makes heartbreaking confessions about the home-jacking of which she was a victim in December 2023.
One morning, three armed individuals entered his garden. “It was almost 6 a.m. My whole family was at home: my husband, my children were sleeping in the basement, my daughter-in-law, my baby… I heard violent knocks in my sleep,” she said.
“My husband comes down, he says to me: 'Call the police, come up with the children'. The guys open the door and the alarm goes off (…) And fortunately, they were destabilized by the alarm. Thank God we had the alarm.”
The star says she at one point found herself facing one of the burglars armed with a baseball bat. “He screams at me: 'Give me the money, give me the jewelry. At that moment I had horrible thoughts, I said to myself: 'He's going to rape me'.”
“Come out of the light”
Vitaa will eventually manage to call for help thanks to her daughter-in-law who managed to hide her phone. “Luckily, my daughter-in-law managed to hide her phone and then I called the police, I told them 'please please, they are in the house, they are kidnapping us in down'”. The police arrived four minutes later and the men were arrested.
Although no one was injured, the trauma remains immense today. “Living with fear is something… It makes you hate being known,” confided Vitaa, who today plans to stay more in the shadows by leaving the stage.
In a sequence from the documentary, the singer with three million albums sold asks her son: “What do you think about me stopping singing but writing for others?” “Me too, I will soon come out of the light,” Vitaa then said.
