A traumatic experience. Victim of domestic violence from her first husband, Valérie Damidot waited ten years before she could pack her bags and leave this toxic partner. A trying period of her life, to which she agreed to return, in the show Click, this Tuesday, December 19. “I took some good hits in the face, it took me a while to leave. You take time to leave because you feel guilty. You feel guilty because it’s a kind of thing that you’re being led into: ‘it’s not jealousy or it’s not manipulation, it’s love.’ So it’s true that it’s hard to leave“, she admitted. In the eyes of the host, today there is no “not enough reception facilities“for women victims of violence : “There isn’t that yet. There are in England, there are many in the United States, there are in Spain. In France, we are a bit behind. It was our president’s super fight…“, she recalled, a little perplexed.
“I was shocked to discover Valérie Damidot, a victim of domestic violence for ten years.“, confided Mouloud Achour to his guest. “Very often, you need to know that the guy who is going to hit you, threaten you, harass you or insult you, he’s a guy who takes women who are quite strong because it’s not very interesting to tame someone who is already tamed“, explained the one who is linked to the royal family of England, specifying that at the time, she kept quiet about her suffering. “I didn’t really like talking about it so On the outside, I pretended everything was fine. I have character, but I am still someone who is hypersensitive, hypertimid, so I quickly withdraw and It’s true that it took me a long time to get out of it.“, she admitted, denouncing “the gear” in which women victims of violence are caught.
Valérie Damidot victim of domestic violence: why she no longer wants to talk about it
Last June, when she was in full promotion of his show Valérie Damidot exposes herselfthe former host of D&CO explained why she did not want not discuss on stage the domestic violence of which she was a victim in the past. “You recounted your experience with your first husband, whom you called ‘the asshole.’ You don’t talk about it on the show“, Léa Salamé pointed out to him. “No because that’s enough! We have already explained the subject well“, estimated Valérie Damidot, who has already spoken on this subject in her autobiography, entitled Heart on hand, finger on the triggerpublished by Michel Lafon in 2016.
If the television woman wanted to tell her story, it is above all to free speech and help other women. “I’m always up for speaking out, helping women who are going through the same thing, about domestic violence, etc. After, talk about him, tell stories and promote him, not even in a dream. Helping women make them understand that they have to leave, that no it’s not normal to have potatoes every day and to be insulted, I do it willingly and with great pleasure“, detailed Valérie Damidot. Things are said.
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