One year after the publication of his book La familia grande, Camille Kouchner confided in the columns of the magazine She. She notably revealed how her children reacted to the scandal.
It is a work that will have marked the year 2021. On January 7, Camille Kouchner published her book La familia grande, in which she accused Olivier Duhamel of incest on his twin brother, nicknamed “Victor“in his work. Even if the facts are prescribed since they would have taken place at the end of the 80s, the Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for “rape and sexual assault by person in authority“In the wake of the book’s accusations, Evelyne Pisier’s ex-husband resigned from his post at the National Foundation for Political Science as well as his posts on Europe 1 and LCI.
Camille Kouchner, too, was impacted by this affair. In the columns of the magazine She, she tells how, right out of La Familia grande, his relatives and they found themselves exposed. “It was very painful because it was my family that was brought to light, the people I love who were subjected to not very constructive judgments“, she recalls.
Camille Kouchner wanted to protect her children
But what mattered above all in the eyes of Camille Kouchner was to protect her two children, her 16 year old daughter and 13 year old son. While the younger did not read the book, the older did. Bernard Kouchner’s daughter did not stop him because he was important to her that she discovers “the power of literature“. “When things are bad, they can also be sublimated”, specifies the 46-year-old writer.
In order to best support her children in the management of events, Camille Kouchner confides that they have “spent a lot of time together, talked a lot. “Because for them, as for me, family ties were really shaken, explains Christine Ockrent’s daughter-in-law. Their challenge was to see how they did with their grandfather, their uncle, their cousins … How their own relationships endured, transformed.” A challenge that the clan must meet on a daily basis.