Another, less well-known title reveals tragic events. She’s crying discusses the incest suffered by the singer during her childhood by her uncle, the brother of her mother suffering from mental and motor disabilities, who had not been taught “good and evil, allowed and forbidden “. Crimes against which she did not protect her, which also affected her brother, she learned barely a decade ago. Like millions of families.
“Today, as we witness a free speech with #MeTooIncest, I am horrified to find out how common this crime is, and how it can ruin the lives of those who have it. suffered “, she laments. Ophélie Winter calls for no longer to be silent. “However enormous the trauma, it is one more victory for the aggressor if the victim lets himself be devoured by the secret.”
The liberation of speech, his in any case, also operates around the toxic relationships that have found his way. With a man called “C.”, who would be none other than the rapper MC Solaar. Or, by pinpointing the media treatment that has been reserved for it. A harmful harassment which, after a burnout and a diagnosis of Arnold’s neuralgia (a disease that paralyzed his body and his face, editor’s note) almost caused him a fatal road accident. And is reminiscent of that suffered by other icons of his generation. Britney Spears, Loana, Paris Hilton … What do they have in common? Women who are labeled “bimbo” as a reductive and pejorative term.
“This book is to take stock, turn a page on a period of my life and show people that we can get out of a lot of problems with resilience,” she says to Laurent Ruquier. And out, she considers herself to be finally. The proof in the introduction, a few paragraphs away from delivering the truth.
“I have never been so serene,” says Ophélie Winter. “It just took me going through the emotional equivalent of five lifetimes, winning and losing millions, touching the stars, scratching my health, cutting rotten branches from my family tree, surviving Shakespearean betrayals and questioning all my beliefs to know this experience. Spend quiet days. On an island. ” We wish them many and peaceful.
Resilience: A look back at an extraordinary destiny, by Ophélie Winter with the collaboration of Pauline Bonnefoy. Harper Collins Publishing. € 19.00
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