Inactive since last September on Instagram, Ophélie Winter came out of her silence on Saturday, after what she defined as “several months of personal introspection”. A withdrawal that she says was “imposed”, in response to many articles about it published in the tabloids in recent months. “Slanders” of which she “was the victim”, according to her.
“Everyone has the right to respect for their private life and their right to image, I am told, understand that we all have the right to respect for our privacy, our secret garden. For a long time already i ‘should nevertheless have learned the lesson: it is not and it never was my case “, she begins.
An image “degrading, degrading and humiliating”
The singer adds that the tabloids made her pay “dearly” for her memory lapses, and that she is not entitled to “the least intimacy”. “My image is the one that the celebrity press decides to give me, depriving me of the slightest control over it,” she said.
Ophélie Winter then evokes last fall, where she had to endure that we say “everything and anything to [son sujet]She also accuses the tabloids of having given a “degrading, degrading and humiliating” image of her person.
“I have been watched, tracked, followed and paparazzied week after week. I have been the subject of daily articles, photos and magazine covers, the number of which is dizzying and the comments published very harsh towards me “, she continues. “All my actions, gestures and reactions have been dissected, interpreted and diverted from what they really were. The rampage was total”.
Peace, serenity and kindness
“I believe in freedom of the press, but this freedom is not the price that I was made to pay”, she assures, explaining having chosen silence because she refused to comment “le torrent of mud in which [elle a] swam with so much pain. ”
Ophélie Winter believes that it is now time for her to turn the page, and concludes her message by thanking her fans for their support. “Today I am a stronger woman and I now aspire to peace, serenity and kindness, “she concludes.
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