Mario Dedivanovic was honored yesterday with the "American Influencer Awards" Award for 2019. In a long and touching speech, where he occasionally burst into tears, he told the story of his life and admitted for the first time that he was gay.
Mario's speech is preceded by a speech by Kim Kardashian, who spoke of her close relationship with the grimmer and their 11-year-old friendship, squabbling as a brother and sister. She said she owes her what she is today. Before handing him the prize, Kim had prepared a surprise video for Marion, featuring his mother, sister and brother.
â??He was 17 and we thought he was just selling make-up. Until one day I was looking for something in his closet and saw a box, opened it and saw make-up products. Growing up in a traditional Albanian family was very difficult because we had grown up with some rules and I knew that my mother would get bored or embarrassed if she found out that my brother was wearing makeup. We asked him what it was and he told us openly what his products were and that he wanted to do make up. We tried to convince him not to, but he just got the box and left. He left with his dreams in his hands, the only thing he got was that box. Today I'm proud of my brother, â?said Mario's sister.
While her mother said she had difficulty accepting the fact that Mario wanted to deal with make-up:
"I implored him to do whatever he wanted except make-up, but he told me he had it set. He took the box and went to his friends' house. Everything he has achieved has been achieved thanks to his work, without the help of anyone. â?
"Thanks to everyone. Thank you Kim for supporting me over these years, you are my muse and angel. It's incredible what you've done to my self-esteem.
I invested everything I had for this dream until something incredible happened. I left behind any uncertainty I had. I began to feel comfortable and comfortable with myself. I'm starting to see my true value.
A few days ago, for my mother's birthday, after returning home from a few work meetings, I found my mother busy with work and burst into tears and told her I had finally spent all my childhood and life drowning. my thoughts, dreams and feelings trying to be invisible so that no one would know how I was feeling inside so no one would make fun of me because I knew I was born differently. I was traumatized to be myself. I lived in fear and shame all my life.
She saw me with her green eyes and I felt her heart breaking and she said to me: From this day on Mario will never live in shame and fear to be who you are because you are beautiful, perfect, powerful. I woke up the next day, which was yesterday, and I felt a light around me.
Now that I have what I dreamed of, I can stay proud and upside down. I know that no one and nothing can destroy it. I learned this from you. You taught me how to be a strong man. I want to say something important to my Albanian brothers and sisters. I'm asking you all to open your eyes, heart, and soul, because many girls and boys in the world are growing up with the pain I've grown up with. Thinking of killing themselves, just as I thought. Just because they are different and afraid to be themselves, because their culture or family judges them. They are afraid that the tribe or family will not accept them because they were born differently. We are no different. We deserve to be happy and feel love. I'm saying this for the first time today, I'm a 37-year-old gay man. Now I can live the life I deserve and feel happy that I can finally live.
