After having publicly testified in favor of one of the alleged victims of Julien Lacroix, comedian Rosalie Vaillancourt broke the silence on social networks on Wednesday.
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“This week has been ‘toff’, she confessed. Julien was a friend of mine. Even though we had lost sight of each other for the past two years, he was someone I find so funny ”.
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A newspaper investigation The duty revealed Monday morning that Julien Lacroix was the subject of allegations of misconduct and sexual assault. Nine women were reportedly victims. Among them, Geneviève Morin, the comedian’s ex-girlfriend, maintained that he had attacked her. She opened up about it last year to her friend Rosalie Vaillancourt, who corroborated her claims.
Rosalie Vaillancourt also said that Julien Lacroix, with whom she had refused to work for two years, had sometimes made inappropriate gestures towards her.
“I was afraid to meet him”
On Instagram, Wednesday, Rosalie Vaillancourt returned to her testimony. “I don’t feel like I was Julien’s victim. I just found it [fucking] heavy drunk. Which helped me believe my friend, ”she wrote.
“I believed her right away,” she wrote, adding that she had received a message from a girl saying “having been a victim, her and several girls in her high school”.
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Rosalie Vaillancourt confided that she had tried, in vain, to talk to people in the field.
“I had been refusing to work with Julien for several months already. I was afraid to meet him. I tried talking to people, but I was so disappointed. People I loved deeply told me to shut up or didn’t listen. ”
Although she receives a lot of negative comments on social media, she says, the 27-year-old comedian believes she did the right thing. “I have surely lost contracts or fans in the last months, weeks and days, she believes. But I acted according to my values. ”
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Break of “several months”
Julien Lacroix reacted publicly as soon as the article in the Duty, Monday morning, claiming not to be a “sexual predator”, but to be “neither an angel nor a demon”. His reaction sparked controversy on social media, before he closed his Facebook page.
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In the process, several broadcasters ousted from their platform programs or series in which the comedian appeared, and his agency, Groupe Phaneuf, immediately severed its ties with him.
Julien Lacroix reactivated his Facebook account on Tuesday, to apologize “to people who have been hurt or disappointed by [sa] publication”. He said he decided to take a professional break of several months, during which he intends to seek help from specialists.
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