Les Grandes Gueules: upset, the columnist cries in full broadcast

A moving testimony… Thursday, April 7, 2022, a debate around inflation in France and the difficulty of some to feed itself was launched in The Big Mouths on RMC Story. During the show, Anna, a listener who earns 1,100 euros a month said: “Help is not so easy to get. And you have to put away your pride, every day, and risk facing rejection. Sometimes you’re on the wrong rung of misery. There are times when we prefer to keep our pride because it’s also the only thing we have left. We make pasta, but at least it’s our pasta.“Moved, columnist Kaouther Ben Mohamed supported the listener, revealing to her that she was in the same situation as her.”I’m a former social worker and I worked in politics at one time. Ten years ago, I fell ill. When I fell ill, I found myself asking for (social, editor’s note) aid. It was very painful for me, as a social worker, to go see a social worker“, she said.

In tears, Kaouther Ben Mohamed explained: “You do not understand… Being in precariousness is super humiliating on a daily basis! When the listener says she can’t pay her child everything, it echoes in me. No, around the table, we don’t all have good salaries. We can be here and continue to struggle on a daily basis, not being able to pay our bills!She added afterwards:The humiliation suffered by precarious people in this country creates an unprecedented, hyper-dangerous divide. We must stop humiliating people on a daily basis and say that France is full of helpers. This lady says she only makes one meal a day, me too with my son. During the day, I don’t eat, I drink coffee. And that is super difficult. We don’t live on aid. It’s super humiliating.“Words that touched Olivier Truchot, who got up to bring him a handkerchief.

Kaouther Ben Mohamed: “I couldn’t afford to buy milk”

Shocked, the columnist explained: “I stayed three weeks in a coma, I went to the Restos du Coeur, I was told that I had passed the registration date… That I was out of time. Therefore, my son ate yoghurt cakes morning, noon and night, with grenadine syrup because I couldn’t afford milk. Even when you go (ask for help), there is none because too many of us are in deep shit today! When you go to see the social worker, the boxes are empty.“After the show, a user wrote to him on Twitter: “It must have been very emotional, what courage to tell these misfortunes it is not so obvious!” Moved, the young woman replied: “Indeed, it’s not easy but necessary to give a little courage to all those who suffer every day from not being able to make ends meet and not being able to offer their children the minimum…“

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