Was "intimate confessions" faked? The former shrink of the show responds: Current Woman The MAG

It is a testimonial program that marked a whole generation of French people. For thirteen years, viewers of TF1 were able to revel, to be moved or revolt in front of the images of Intimate confessions, who followed personalities prone to behavioral problems on a daily basis. Sequences so big, like when this fan of Claude François put his passion before his family life, which left some observers skeptical about the veracity of these reports. A controversy had even erupted in 2013 when the comedian Rémi Gaillard, known for his hidden cameras, had trapped the producers of the show, in order to to denounce bogus subjects and manipulated participants. It is in particular to answer this question that Karine Grandval, the former psychologist of the program, was invited on the set of Do not touch My TV, Friday March 19, 2021.

"Everything is true, it's life, it's France"

This was all the more involved as it intervened on the screen to provide assistance to the people concerned by putting them face to face with reality and their image, through viewing videos of their conflict. "This is the question I get asked the most: are they real people, are they actors?", said the therapist, who has since launched her Youtube channel. "Everything is true, this is life, this is France, these are real people", she asserted in front of a Cyril Hanouna and circumspect chroniclers. She then tried to explain the inexplicable at the end of an extract where we saw a crazy Elvis Presley take himself for the "King" in the street. "Of course, it exists, and we only live for that. The problem with all these fans is that their passion takes precedence over everything else. and it becomes unmanageable for their couple or for their family, " said the personal development specialist. Not sure that Karine Grandval convinced the assembly, but these images at least had the merit of making people smile … or cry.

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