“I was devastated”, she admits to having thought about suicide after the media coverage of the “Zahia affair”

Before turning to fashion and cinema, Zahia Dehar became known to the general public in spring 2010 through the “Zahia affair”. She is then suspected of having had paid sexual relations with players of the French team, including Karim Benzema and Franck Ribéry, while she was a minor. Very quickly, her face was revealed by the media and numerous photos of her circulated on the Web, making her an “Internet phenomenon”. Tired of being dragged through the mud, she ended up breaking the silence by granting an exclusive interview to our colleagues at Paris Match. In the pages of the weekly, she claimed to consider herself “like an escort girl”and not a prostitute.

Karim Benzema and Franck Ribéry were acquitted by the Paris Criminal Court after their trial in 2014, while Zahia Dehar took advantage of her new celebrity to leave the world of prostitution and embark on a completely different career.

Zahia Dehar: “I felt like the world was collapsing on top of me.”

Guest of C the weeklyZahia Dehar returned to the scandal that marked her life, particularly how it deeply affected her. “I felt bad, I felt like the world was collapsing on me. I said to myself: ‘But what did I do to deserve this?’ Because I didn’t look for anything. It wasn’t me who went to file a complaint: they came to get me.”she first confided to Aurélie Casse.

And to add: “I was devastated because I knew I was going to start my life, at the age of 18, with the worst label a woman could have.. For me, from that moment on, everything was going to be forbidden to me because of the slut-shaming and whorephobia that is extreme in our society. And until now, this scourge has not been resolved. We put women in categories and women who have the misfortune of being in this category of bad women, in these cases, society makes them pay a price which is enormous, which is horrible.”

Zahia Dehar admits to having thought about suicide after the media coverage of the “Zahia affair”

Zahia Dehar then admitted to having assumed the worst when the scandal broke. “Because I said to myself: ‘What is my future concretely?’ I’m going to look for a job, I’m going to be humiliated everywhere, everyone is going to laugh at me, all the time. I would have been insulted every day by everyone. With this label, everything is forbidden to us.”

The former escort girl has nevertheless brilliantly succeeded in retraining in the world of fashion. In 2012, Zahia Dehar launched her lingerie collection at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris in the presence of many industry professionals. She then launched herself onto the big screen appearing in the comedy Joséphine rounds up as well as in films An easy girl et The sea air sets you free. France 3 viewers also saw him in an episode of the series Captain Marleau.

With her wealth of experience in several editorial offices, Doriane is today an expert on celebrity subjects, without forgetting television and cinema, which no longer hold any secrets for…