Nemo on Eurovision and coming out: ‘Maybe my journey is not complete’

“It’s been an overwhelming experience at times” says Nemo of their 2024 (Image: Tom Johnson)

The last few months have been quite the rollercoaster…” says Switzerland’s finest, Nemo, of life since becoming the first publicly non-binary person to win the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Malmö, Sweden, in May this year. “It’s been an overwhelming experience at times. Also, mentally, I feel like some of the middle has gone. I’m either super euphoric, or on the verge of a mental breakdown sometimes…” They laugh nervously, but lightly, and when we ask them point blank how they are, they say “good”, later adding, “This industry is quite something. I just have to find my way of dealing with all of this.”

If this introduction sets a trepidatory tone, let us make

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