Lulu Garcia Navarro

Kaholin ends up having a breakdown.

She ends up being hospitalized.

It must have been so difficult to balance being a victim yourself and having to be a mother of adult children in need.

You mentioned that pain doesn't bring a family together, it can often tear it apart.

It just strikes me that when you were talking about how happy you were and what a family person you were, how proud you were of being a parent and a grandparent, to have your family pulled apart in this way must have been very painful.

In the book, you write about how you have struggled to reconcile your happy memories with the knowledge you have now about the reality of who Mr. Pelico was.

And you write, and I'm quoting here, if the last 50 years of my life were taken away from me, it would be as if I had never existed.

I would be dead.

I mean, that's a very complicated idea.

Can you explain how you've tried to work through that?

This all leads us up to the trial itself.

In France, victims of sexual violence have the right to have their identity protected.

But you make this extraordinarily brave decision to waive your anonymity, allowing an open proceeding where members of the press, members of the public can see what is going on inside the courtroom.

Can you take me into that decision, how you realize that this is something that you wanted the world to see?

What was it like to see all those men in the courtroom day after day?

Did your attitude towards them change over time?

You mentioned the role of the videos, and up until right before the trial, you had never watched the videos of the rapes.

And it's inconceivable, actually, to have to sit through that and watch that happen to you.

But as you know, without those videos...

You wouldn't have had the proof to show these men were lying about what had actually taken place.