This Monday March 25, 2024, the chef Babeth de Rozières was present on the set of It begins today opposite Faustine Bollaert on France 2. Cash on the domestic violence she suffered, she also revealed having been raped in her childhood, a buried trauma whose circumstances she discovered only much later.
In her show this Monday March 25, 2024, Faustine Bollaert at the helm of It starts today on France 2 returned to a subject that has been in the news in recent months, violence against women as well as domestic violence. For the occasion, several personalities gathered around the host to tell their stories, like Judith Chemla or Adeline Toniutti, the singer and singing teacher at the Star Academy, whose revelations shocked the set.
It’s January 2023 on the set of Seven to Eight that the candidate of Dance with the stars had already revealed the hell she had experienced while suffering domestic violence from her former partner for many years. Subject to which she returned on set in a moving story: “ One day he threw me in the cellar, I couldn’t get up. When I tried to leave he chased me in the car, he blew my head off» she reveals with difficulty. Shortly after, chef Babette de Rozières also went to the set to give her testimony.
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Babette de Rozières raped in her childhood
If the famous chef who worked for many years in the services of the King of Morocco Mohammed VI first spoke of the domestic violence she had suffered during her first union, she also made heartbreaking revelations about her childhood. Originally from Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe, the chef, now 76 years old, reveals that she was raped when she was only a five-year-old child. A traumatic story of which she reveals the chilling memories in her autobiography, Always get up as well as on the set of Faustine Bollaert.
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A rape of which she will discover the circumstances much later, at the age of 50 when the painful memories come to the surface. A realization that came among other things during her first union when on her wedding night, her husband announced to her that she was not a virgin, a situation which was the trigger for the first blows: “It gave me a shock. I said to him, “How dare you say I’m not a virgin? I’ve never been with anyone before you.” It started like this» she says. Although she endured her husband’s violence for many years, without being able to escape, she reveals that the trigger for her rape did not occur until much later.
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“I realized it at 50”
One fine morning, aged 50, the famous cook discovered inC to youtell : “I didn’t know I was a raped child. I realized this when I was 50. One day I wake up and see incredible things. I called my daughter and told her, “I don’t understand what’s happening to me.”» Terrifying memories that come back to him like a boomerang in the face: “I rewatched the whole scene, when I was a child and he put me on top of him, he pushed his penis in… I felt the pain, at 50 years old. And that’s when I realized he was right. He said I wasn’t a virgin and it was true.»
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Struggling to hold back her tears in front of Faustine Bollaert who is also trying to contain herself, Babette de Rozières apologizes: “Sorry, I’ve never said that, it’s the first time» before getting emotional about the liberation of women’s voices: “That’s why I came here because I told myself that there were too many women back home in the West Indies who are hiding. Who find excuses for man to hide the vice of their husbands. She often doesn’t work. She is totally dependent on the guy. She has no choice. And then the guy has such a hold on the woman… One look is enough for you to shut up... » A moving and extremely hard testimony…
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