“Free”. This is the name of the autobiography published by Adriana Karembeu this Thursday, May 2. Childhood, motherhood… through the 192 pages of this book, the model, now 52 years old, reveals several significant events in her life. Among them, the attempted rape of a French director, reports DH Net.
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“One day, my agent asked me to meet a director for a project. I go to his house alone for the meeting, I am naive enough not to be suspicious because it is the afternoon,” says Adriana Karembeu. “I ring his doorbell. The director, who already has several films to his credit, welcomes me with a smile, invites me to come in and sit down.” The rest was a “brief discussion on the script”, then the director in question approached her, placed his hand on her knee before “throwing himself brutally” on her, kissing her “violently “. “I feel his saliva on my face and my chest,” she specifies in her autobiography that Télé-Loisirs was able to read in preview.
One of the most “traumatic” experiences of his life
At that time, the Slovak TV presenter was 35 years old. This is what allowed him to “repel this infamous predator and escape”. Because, she said, “if I had been twenty, I think I would have been more deeply affected,” she confided.
Some time later, she said she crossed paths with the director again while she was at a restaurant with her husband, Christian Karembeu. “He dares to greet me in front of my husband, with his lewd air, even though he tried to rape me so recently,” she says.
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Adriana Karembeu considers this experience one of the “most traumatic of her life”. A testimony which also echoes the freedom of speech in French cinema and the scale that the #MeToo movement has experienced for several months. This Thursday, the Assembly approved the creation of a commission of inquiry into “abuses and violence” in cinema, audiovisual, performing arts, fashion and advertising, giving substance to a request from the actress Judith Godrèche.
