Mika turns 40 and talks about himself: the escape from the civil war, dyslexia, the nights sleeping in the car with his mother. And success. “I fear those who abuse the power he has”

2023-06-09 04:32:19

There’s a moment during our interview where Mika returns as Michael H. Penniman Jr. He’s 8 years old, he’s in London and he’s just stopped talking. He kind of shut down. He can’t even write or read. And he ends up in the most absurd way: kicked out of school. “There was this teacher, someone who picked who to destroy and went through with it.