Sentenced for sexual assault last October, Nicolas Bedos made his first speech on television this May 3. A remarkable passage that praised his partner Pauline Desmonts via his Instagram account.
After the accusations against him, it was through writing that he spoke. Nicolas Bedos made his media return this May 3 in the program “What era! After several months of silence. Invited by Léa Salamé, he presented “the thirst for shame”, his new book which will appear on May 7, in which he returned to his conviction for sexual assault in October 2024.
A highly anticipated passage, marked by a moment of discomfort. Since the public, the humorist Paul de Saint SERNIN has not failed to tackle the director. Smiling lips, he launched him: “All the money collected thanks to the sale of this book will be donated to an association of victims”. A dash of humor that did not make Nicolas Bedos react, visibly unclined to joke. “You don’t know, I just decided. (…) A way to show you that it is important, consent. “Added Paul de Saint Sernin on the set, triggering public applause.
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A sequence of which the 46 -year -old actor would have gone well for his first television speaking since his conviction. This Monday, May 5, his partner Pauline DESMONTS wanted to provide him with his public support. On Instagram, she published an extract from the interview, accompanied by this message: “First words in image. Neither defense nor posture. Just a man (mine) who seeks to understand. A statement addressed to the one who has shared his life since 2021, and their daughter’s father.
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A book to talk to her daughter
It was partly for his daughter Joséphine that he wrote his book. “One day will come, my daughter, where you will ask 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, ”we read on the cover of the work. On an Instagram post, that same day, Nicolas Bedos also expressed himself to explain the reasons that pushed him to write his 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 from us, of me, of our time, “he wrote.
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His conviction for sexual assault
Last October, Nicolas Bedos was sentenced to one year in prison, including six months under an electronic bracelet, for two cases of sexual assault. In the first, a woman accused him of having touched her sex over her jeans during an evening. In the second, a waitress claimed to have been caught by the waist and kissed in the neck without its consent. He was found guilty in these two cases, but relaxed in a third case of sexual harassment, “for the benefit of doubt”.
