On December 22, YouTuber Mava Chou ended her life after several months of online harassment. In an interview filmed in early December for Seven to eight, she confides in the attacks she receives.
Her whole family was getting ready to get together to celebrate Christmas, but on December 23, her best friend took to social media to announce her passing. Victim of insults on her platforms, she killed herself, leaving behind her four children and her companion Romain. The latter confided in the columns of Parisian on the situation which has become unlivable for his girlfriend. “When hundreds of accounts started attacking her role as a mother, her children, her spouse, it became unbearable for her.“, he explains. The show Seven to eight of this Sunday, January 9, devoted a report to the deceased in which she confides in the teams of the program on the cyberstalking she suffers. Images filmed a few weeks before his death.
But to ignore for some people is to validate“
On December 7, the production of Seven to eight was planning to shoot a story with Mava Chou on Family Channels and the attacks she was experiencing online. At the request of the family, the production of TF1 agreed to broadcast his testimony in its last number. Faced with videos posted on Instagram of her ex-companion Adrien, accusing her of mistreating their children, she did not try to defend herself. “It’s awful to be accused of that, of not being able to say anything. We try to say ‘I will ignore it’, that’s the best answer. But to ignore for some people is to validate“, she confides, her eyes filled with tears. “She doesn’t say anything so it’s true“, will say its detractors. However, Mava Chou takes care of her children full time while their father has”abandoned custody overnightBy not responding, Mava Chou was inundated with hate messages on Twitter.
“I was put on antidepressants. I came to want to stop living. I made attempts“
Some want him to end up in prison or in a coffin, others make pornographic montages. Mava Chou loses many subscribers who support the father of her children. “I was put on antidepressants. I came to want to stop living. I made attempts“, she says, showing her self-harm scars on her forearm. “We give up. If I am a monster, then I am going. There is no way out. We have no way out“, she confides. But even by filing a complaint five times against his ex-spouse, the situation has not changed in his favor: “Nobody cares.“
?On December 7, #Mavachou gave us an interview as part of a report on family channels on Youtube and the cyberstalking she suffered. On December 22, Maeva committed suicide at her home. His family asked us to share this testimony. pic.twitter.com/iPbwjBMOEr
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