Gisèle Pelicot

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516 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 25 Jun

Gisèle Pelicot’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And, you know, you've got mechanisms, defense mechanisms you can't even master sometimes.

But I got into bed and I slept on my side of the bed without realizing all the horrors.

Of course, I saw the videos afterwards in May 2024, in other words, four years after the fact.

And when I see those videos...

And I can see all these horrible scenes and these scenes of barbarism, which are unbearable, intolerable.

I think, how could I have slept in that bed?

And that's something that I would never have done if I'd really seen all the videos.

But at the time, when I only saw those two photographs, I couldn't possibly envisage what had been done to me in that bedroom.

Yes, I didn't want to collapse because if I collapsed, then they would have won.

They would have really won.

And that wasn't acceptable.

So my daughter, in fact, said I was right to oppose anonymity.

So I went for long walks, and I came home, and I talked about it.

It was my new partner, and I said to him, you know, I've decided, in fact, to oppose anonymity.

He said, whatever your decision is, I will follow you.

I called my lawyers, who were surprised because I said to them, initially it was going to be total anonymity.

They said to me, think about it.

And I said, no, when I make a decision, I don't come back on it.

And I thought, let's go for it.

And of course, I had to prepare myself.

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