The beginning of May was a date eagerly awaited by Adriana Karembeu, the model and TV presenter is releasing her new book, Free, in which she confides openly about her professional and personal life. “From the glamorous backstage of modeling to television sets, she excels as a charismatic host, talented actress and formidable businesswoman. Devoted mother of little Nina, she shares for the first time in this book the ups and downs of her two marriages and separations, as well as the obstacles she courageously overcame to become a mother at the age of 46. Each stage of his journey, marked by challenges, offers us a precious testimony to the strength of the human spirit.”specifies the summary of the work published by Editions Leduc.
This rape narrowly avoided by Adriana Karembeu
Over the course of 192 pages, Adriana Karembeu immerses herself in memories that are not always happy. She thus confides in the violence suffered when she was a child but also in the shocking sexual assault suffered at the hands of a famous French director met to talk about a film project. A man to whom she went alone, without her agent who had put them in contact. “I am naive enough not to be suspicious because it is the afternoon. 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. she says in this book according to an extract taken by Leisure TV. “After a brief discussion about the script, he gets up and moves closer to me on the couch. He places his hand on his knee, then suddenly throws himself on me, kissing me violently. I feel his saliva on my face and my chest”she continues, explaining that she violently pushed him away despite the shock she felt. “I am thirty-five years old, and I mustered the strength necessary to fend off this infamous predator and escape. If I had been twenty, I think I would have been more deeply affected.”
This second shocking encounter with his attacker
Shocked by this attempted rape, Adriana Karembeu was also marked by the reaction of her agent when she told him about the scene years later. “I should have warned you, he is sometimes borderline, his reputation precedes him”, he would have told her about this director who she does not name. A man she saw again one evening by chance while she was dining at a restaurant with her husband at the time, Christian Karembeu, and who was unaware of this attack. “Like a punch in the stomach, I see this French director cross the threshold, walk towards our table, act absolutely as if nothing had happened. As if nothing had happened. He dares to greet me in front of my husband, with his lustful air, even though he tried to rape me so recently. I remain unmoved, even if deep inside, I scream with all my might.”
