In June 2023, Nicolas Bedos was placed in police custody for the alleged sexual assault of a woman a few weeks earlier, during an evening. The following year, the author was sentenced to a year of imprisonment including six months suspended: he announced to appeal this conviction before retracting in January 2025.
“Today, I tell”
Available guilty of sexual assault, the forties decided to tell his experience in a book: “I got you for two years. Two years of shame, anger and doubts. I recognized my faults, accepted my pain. Today, I tell. Not to justify myself, but to try to understand what led me to this fall-and what it reveals to me, of our time,” he wrote in an Instagram post. work is scheduled for May 7.
The author also unveiled the back cover of his book, as well as the headlines that accompanies him. What seems to have also motivated Nicolas Bedos to write is the desire to present his version of the facts to his daughter Joséphine, born in 2023: “One day will come, my daughter, where you will ask yourself questions. You will go on the Internet to glean info on your father. It is in anticipation of this day that I wrote this book.”
The back of the book reveals the extract of a dialogue, in which it self-analysis. “You have not realized that time had passed, that a nightclub is not a fair and that the time no longer excuses what some were minimized,” it can be read. An assertion written by himself to which he responds “I admit”. “If the galleys that await you can dissuade others from becoming types like you, you will have been used for something,” you can also read. In addition to his daughter’s judgment, Nicolas Bedos seems to hope that his story will be able to “dissuade” other men who could behave as he did.
A work that divides even before its release
In the commentary space, his approach is widely praised: “Bravo, it is very courageous”, “Bravo for this book and your questioning”, “Recognizing his wrongs requires courage, humility and great inner strength”, “it is rare someone who makes his mea culpa”, can we read in particular. Yannick Noah, ex -international tennis player converted into the song, also wanted to support Nicolas Bedos, writing “Courage My Friend”.
But if some congratulate it, other Internet users have denounced the mercantile aspect of this initiative: “You will not have a penny of my pocket!”, “I hope that the profits will go to defense associations for victims of sexual and sexist assaults”, “another broken career, a” son of “who will make money with his delinquent behaviors and who at the time. To forget, it will be more decent “,” all these known people believe they are allowed.
