The actress and singer returned to the relationship she had with her first companion.
“I lived through hell for two years”. The actress and singer Camille Lellouche reveals this Sunday on the set of the show “Sept à Huit” of TF1 having been the victim of domestic violence when she was 19 years old.
The one that the French have come to know through her acting and her voice tells of having met a boy while she was in vocational school. The beginning of a relationship then begins, but her companion, initially “seductive, charming, very intelligent”, quickly becomes violent with her.
“We were on a monster”
It all started with an argument after a month of relationship, when he compared the experience of his grandmother to her grandparents, deported during World War II. She then leaves the room.
“When I came back fifteen minutes later, I hear in the distance ‘where is that bitch?’. I have a shock. And I say ‘is it me the bitch?’. Said ‘where the fuck was you?’. I don’t have time to react when he slaps me, very violent “, she reports,” He was still 120 kilos, we were on a monster. “
“It was very violent”
She then explains to him that it is over between them. He apologizes to her crying, insists, she accepts them. The violence does not take long to return, both physical and psychological, and is triggered when, for example, she refuses to make love with him.
“When you have someone very strong, you have no choice”, she confides, moved, “When you weigh 40 kilos, you do not go far […] It was my first love so the relationship to sex was very violent for me. “
“All the forms of violence that a woman can suffer, I have suffered”, says Camille Lellouche. She then explains having fallen into depression, losing weight, then regaining it before losing it again.
“I was constantly with the urge to vomit. I went from 52 kilos to 40 in two months, I was very very very thin. I became a shadow,” she continues.
“At the first attempt, you have to go”
One day, after multiple acts of violence and humiliation, Camille Lellouche explains that she even imagined the worst: “if I had had a weapon, I think I would have killed him. It is very violent what I say, but it is is right.”
Her family, who understand the situation she is undergoing, sends her to England for a year, far from her companion. It then escapes its grip. “This is the first and the last time I will talk about it,” she warns facing the camera.
Today, the one who wishes to become a mother one day has a message to pass on to all women who are victims of domestic violence.
“Obviously the first time you have to leave. But I can’t say that when I haven’t been able to do it. Obviously you have to file a complaint. Me, I haven’t been able to. do it. I hope that all these women will be able to file a complaint, “she concludes.
3919: the telephone number for women victims of violence
The “3919”, “Violence Femmes Info”, is the national reference number for women victims of violence (conjugal, sexual, psychological, forced marriages, sexual mutilation, harassment …). It’s free and anonymous. It offers listening, informs and directs towards support and support systems. This number is managed by the National Federation of Solidarity Women (FNSF).
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