Rambo also spoke: It has nothing to do with sex

Lejla Kašić, the producer of the show "Diary" on the Radio-Television of Montenegro, accused the musician Rambo Amadeus of sexual abuse, then UNICEF, of which he is a goodwill ambassador, and today also Rambo Amadeus, spoke out.

"Yesterday, during the filming of the 'Diary' episode, I experienced sexual harassment by our guest, a great intellectual, regionally recognized and influential figure, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Antoni Pušić, better known under the pseudonym Rambo Amadeus," wrote Lejla Kašić in a post on Instagram. .

She also wrote that "it is terrible, dangerous, problematic that someone prone to deviant behavior through involvement in UNICEF has access to the most vulnerable categories of society."

"It's wrong on so many levels." Such a person works with the most vulnerable category - children. I was thinking about what to do, because our institutions did not react to much more serious cases, they remain silent on femicide, domestic violence... I decided that I will not remain silent. For all the girls who, for whatever reason, think they have to keep quiet. It is my moral, civic and feminine duty and obligation to say," Kašić told "Vijesta".

Lejla Kašić points out that there is a video as proof that Pušić called her a "fool" and a "lunatic". As she claims, a little later she also received a message, in which the musician claims that she misunderstood everything and that "they can be good friends".

On this occasion, UNICEF wrote that "it is familiar with the allegations against Antonio Pušić. His engagement with UNICEF has been suspended until further notice. UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy towards any form of sexually inappropriate behavior, as it is contrary to UNICEF's core values."

Rambo Amadeus published a statement on his Facebook profile.

His publication is exhaustive and open, and allows to gain a more complete picture of what really happened on the set of "Dnevnica". We publish it almost in its entirety.

"Due to the unfortunate, unpleasant and unpleasant event in the finale of the filming of the episode of the series "Diary", as well as the media uproar that follows it, I want to come forward and explain my completely inappropriate behavior towards the journalist Lejla Kašić", he wrote at the beginning.

He says that "the whole day was grumpy and sarcastic because of the fact that I so hastily fell into something that has nothing to do with my sensibilities and beliefs."

First of all, because of my opposition to publicly filming a family that is being helped and thereby stigmatizing it in public. That seemed terribly cruel to me, I couldn't understand that it was "cool" for someone and that they thought they were doing a good deed. I checked the broadcasts superficially, I didn't even notice that the family being helped was exposed to the media. I objected loudly in front of the camera crew, but since the entire local community was already looking forward to me participating in that charity event, I was put in front of the fait accompli.

I had no choice but to piss. For example, because of the producer's permanent correction of my every sentence regarding anything. It had to be endured.

Then because of the shameless flirting, overpowering, which got on my nerves all day.

Due to false moralizing and insisting on how humane that work is, I don't know how humane it is, but in fact the socially disadvantaged are exposed to the media for the sake of her personal promotion."

He describes the sexual abuse I was accused of as follows:

"While we were approaching the house of a socially disadvantaged family, I groped or slapped the ass or pinched the lady in question, I have no idea now." It has nothing to do with sex, at least not on my end. I wanted to somehow inform her that I had nothing more to do, that she had forced me into a humiliating position. Some kind of last attempt to give up the rude intrusion into the privacy of a family. An unhappily articulated quasi-buddy alarm. Sexist maybe, sexual no.

Just later, during the filming, in the apartment of an endangered family, while I personally did not manage to control my enormous anxiety, where I cursed in front of the camera both society and the state for the fact that we have to beg in order to enable some people to pay their debts and fill the refrigerator, the person in question showed full composure and coolness.

After the recording, at the very parting, she began to demonstrate some kind of theatrical anger and asked me to apologize.

After not receiving a satisfactory apology, she went into a hysterical fit, so strong that I told her she was crazy and needed treatment. I really honestly think that even now. Just as I equally think that the entire media scene is sick, without scruples, in which, in the absence of clear ethical principles, a cancel culture is accepted - a culture of medieval witch-hunting only in the era of mobile phones.

Of course, I want to emphasize here that I find any form of violence against anyone, especially against children and women, unacceptable and disgusting. But here I really don't feel that I was violent, but that I was defending my own integrity. A man in her place would do worse.

I know that now the media will bury me for not accepting the dominant social hypocrisy and publicly apologizing. I can't. I hate apologizing to a person I think is manipulative, deviant, and evil. Of course I'm sorry for losing my temper and touching something that shouldn't be touched without permission. Of course I'm sorry for losing my temper and fighting. It wasn't right. Mea maxima culpa. I apologize to all those who expected better quality behavior from me under pressure. I hope this apparent technicality in apologizing is clear.

I would like to point out that because it is being manipulated, I informed the Unicef ​​organization the very next morning, in a timely manner and on my own initiative, verbally and in writing that we were freezing our arrangement until the case was clarified. They reacted exactly as they should.

The moronic cancel culture that reinforces today's herd psychology will not make me fear the ruin of my reputation now. I feel bad for the public reputation in which the public sphere has been completely degraded."

S.Ć./Danas

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