More than a month after its release, the shock wave of La Familia Grande keep on going. Monday February 15, 2021, Camille Kouchner, who accuses her stepfather Olivier Duhamel for committing incest on one of his brothers, was a guest of Daily sure TMC. If the lawyer, also a mother of two children, who had such a hard time telling her story to her relatives, refused to speak in place of the alleged victim, she nevertheless agreed to go behind the scenes of writing of his book. It must be said that the work contains serious accusations. Sexual assault, psychological hold, incestuous climate … Camille Kouchner did not spare her mother's last husband, Evelyne Pisier. For Camille Kouchner, aware that the facts are now prescribed, this book was above all intended to break the law of silence. As she explained to Yann Barthès, some passages were however more difficult to write than others …
"To separate things between happiness and aggression, it was difficult"
"What was the most difficult to write, it's happy times. It might be surprising, but when you do this memory work, trying to find the words, it's accepting that it was also a childhood, up to a point, and in some ways, absolutely wonderful. That made me cry a lot while writing it ", Camille Kouchner confided, her voice trembling. And for good reason, as she explains in her book, the young woman grew up in a privileged environment, with an air of celebration that constantly reigned in this famous villa of Sanary. Happy memories interwoven with the horror she describes in La Familia Grande.
During its passage in Daily, Camille Kouchner did not hide having spent moments of extreme happiness with her family, including with Olivier Duhamel whom she protected for a long time. "I was also very lucky to be surrounded by all these people. There is one who did us a lot of harm but here it is, the others did not. Distinguish between happiness and aggression, it was hard", she explained to the presenter of TMC. For now, Olivier Duhamel remains presumed innocent. The Paris prosecutor's office, however, opened a preliminary investigation on January 5, the aim being to discover possible new victims and to verify the limitation periods.
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