Christine Kelly was the guest of Touche pas à mon poste this Friday, June 17. The opportunity for the journalist to discuss the racism of which she was the victim.
Two years ago, Christine Kelly’s life was turned upside down. Between October 2, 2020 and November 19, 2021, the journalist was the target of numerous death threats, mainly received by email. “The ax will inevitably fall on your well-made head”, and “your head will fall like a slate on a stormy evening”, she had received in particular. Since then she has to live with bodyguards to ensure his protection and that of his loved ones. Invited to the Touche set not at my post this Friday, June 17, Christine Kelly made some confidences and she remembered the day she was the victim of a very inappropriate remark. “On LCI, a young woman asked me if I was coming to clean her house. It was between two JT“, she first revealed. A statement that shocked Benjamin Castaldi a lot. “But you didn’t want to tell him to shut his mouth? Finally even shut his mouth?“, he asked his guest. “So yes, but what’s interesting is that you have palpitations. You wonder how it’s possible when she was a friend“, she replied, in full transparency. “It was ? In the past ?“, continued the host. “Yes, in the very decomposed imperfect even“, concluded Christine Kelly.
Racist remarks, Christine Kelly is used to it. Thus, when Bernard Montiel asked her if she sometimes got angry, the journalist replied that she had several options. “What I did was I said to myself, either I get mad, or I insult her, or I smile and leave her to her defiance.” she said before adding: “I don’t let myself be locked up in the humiliation of the other and I make my way“. An important decision for Christine Kelly who assures that she finds it “a great freedom to not be locked into criticism“. Subsequently, she returned to her experience, which marked her a lot. “I was often pointed out that I was the only black one, the only one at LCI, the only one at the CSA“, she revealed before adding: “At the CSA, it was the worst moment. Every time I opened the press, it was lies about me all the time”, she remembered. Always determined not to let things go, Christine Kelly declares that she was able to “surprising because I never allowed myself to be locked into criticism. Where I was attacked, I smiled. I wanted to show that we could be competent and move forward. We can fall but we have to reveal ourselves”, she concluded. That has the merit of being clear.
Christine Kelly: what period was particularly complicated for the journalist?
Christine Kelly has been talked about a lot, especially when she was seen alongside Eric Zemmour. While Benjamin Castaldi assures that he had a lot of trouble with certain comments made, the journalist praised his courage. “Many friends criticized me for working with Zemmour; You, you were kind enough to share your comments with me and I understood them.“, she first claimed. “Asking me why I’m here is important. Even shocked, I don’t have to show it and many didn’t even want to talk to me. I was getting phone calls telling me it wasn’t my place“, she continues. While she was criticized for being neutral and not having directly attacked Eric Zemmour on certain subjects, Christine Kelly recalls that, according to her, the “a journalist’s job is to be neutral and it’s up to the viewers to form their own opinion“Today, it is with two bodyguards that Christine Kelly travels on a daily basis.