but what is this witchcraft business?

Carla Moreau, of the Marseillais, is accused of having used witchcraft to advance her career. She defended herself by explaining that she had been the victim of racketeering. We explain the underside of a funny affair.

It was the case of the moment on social networks: that of Carla Moreau, star of the Les Marseillais reality show, is accused of witchcraft. Yes, you read that right. Are we back to the time of the witches who were placed at the stake? One thing is certain: from twist to twist, there is something to get lost in this story. A three-act look back at the facts that sums up what reality TV is like today: rumors, clashes and money matters.

Act 1: Carla accused of witchcraft

Ruby's mom has been accused on social media of using a "witch" to get his career off the ground in the W9 program. On Saturday March 6, 2021, voice recordings, posted on Snapchat by two bloggers, suggested that Carla would also have called on her to cast spells on her comrades on the Marseillais show, on W9, in order to "destroy their careers." Dark story! Carla then found herself in the midst of a real scandal.

Some co-stars of the show Les Marseillais have also spoken after the publication of these chilling audios: "I'm in shock. I don't sleep anymore, I don't eat anymore, I'm in the worst (…) I feel like I'm in a nightmare. I wish it wasn't true. J lost the person I love the most on TV. I am shocked and devastated. In this story, there are a lot of people affected, of victims. ", told, for example, Maeva Ghennam on her Instagram account. "When Marc Blata and Nadé (the two bloggers, editor's note) told me, I didn't believe it, but when I saw the voodoo videos, I fell in love with it (…) Manon Marsault was right from the start. I apologized, because I thought she was jealous and was staring at this person ", she added. If she had remained silent until now, Carla then decided to give her side of the story.

Act 2: Carla explains herself

Invited Monday, March 8, 2021 on the set of TPMP, Carla Moreau recounted having been in contact with this clairvoyant at the age of 17 or 18, when she was not yet known. And it was after her participation in the Marseillais that this woman came back to her. Contrary to what rumors have so far claimed, Carla would not therefore have used this psychic to be part of the reality show. From the moment she started to appear on television, the psychic allegedly took more and more money from her, going up to 1.2 million euros. This blackmail would have lasted, according to her, four years.

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Carla explains: "I spent 1.2 million euros over 4 or 5 years. The problem is that as the payments became more and more expensive, she asked me for 1000 euros, then 6000 euros and then 8000 euros. (… ) It didn't stop, she left me more money so I could live. I even got to the point where when I bought myself something, I didn't have to show it. If they saw that I was had bought me a handbag, it is because I still had money that could be extracted from me. I had to hide, they all wanted to take me, I could not go back ", she said, adding that the mysterious clairvoyant had also started to blackmail her relatives.

Act 3: the reaction of the Marseillais after the interview with Carla

An explanation which did not convince his Marseillais comrades. According to blogger Marc Blata, relayed by Here is, they would not "not happy" of this speech. "There are Marseillais who are not happy. I can feel it from here, I don't know why I feel it's close", the blogger said on Snapchat. "It smells like a smell of seum, it smells like a mad seum!", he adds. Once again, it is about the culture of the clash, the breeding ground for reality TV. From a rumor leave quarrels, speeches on the networks then in the media. A well-established scheme which serves above all … to promote these programs. According to an Omnicom PublicRelationsGroup poll, dating from 2018, 87% of French people feel that in the media, we favor controversy more than constructive debate. The clash attracts, arouses curiosity. And this pseudo-affair is the prime example: for several weeks, hashtags concerning it have been among the trends of Twitter. You will now understand why "witch" appears in your news feed …