“The message is that we would really like you to take your own life,” Maripier Morin told me.
“I was guillotined in a public square,” Kathleen told me.
When I look back on 2024, I can say that these are my two most memorable interviews of the year at QUB radio at 99.5 FM.
This is no coincidence: these are two women who say they have been crushed by the accursed media machine.
GET RID!
Last Wednesday, I received the singer Kathleen, who had just made a triumphant return in the special show of The Furysinging his 90s hit: I’m doing well. Except things didn’t go well for Kathleen.
In an interview that has been viewed forty thousand times on YouTube, she told me how the mockery about her on the show Hot pepper had affected her morale and her self-confidence.
“At certain times, I was afraid that people would recognize me. The suffering becomes stronger than anything,” the singer told me, who no longer left her house, for fear of being ridiculed in the street.
I asked him a difficult question: “If it hadn’t been for that episode of Hot pepper who crushed you – I think that’s not too strong a word – for four years, would your career have been different?”
She replied, “Yes, maybe it would have been different, but I had to live through that. I opened the way for others, in any case. That’s what I think, because today, that wouldn’t work anymore. If I can at least serve as an example…”
“Because it’s atrocious what I was put through. I was guillotined in a public square and I did not commit a crime. I just wanted to make people happy. I promised myself not to cry. I just wanted to make people happy. That’s my crime.”
Ten days ago, it was Maripier Morin who sat in the guest chair at QUB. Unlike Kathleen who did nothing wrong, Maripier Morin made mistakes… and admitted it.
“I took the blame. I said: perfect, I have some self-examination to do, I have recovery to begin,” she explained to me. “I still have pain, an inner void that needs to be filled. But I know he’s there.”
For the first time in four years, she spoke openly about the cancel culture that completely erased her from public life. The image she used was very strong. Canceling individuals is like “digging a pit somewhere, a fictitious pit, into which we throw individuals.”
Then she continued: “You try to find solutions, you try to get back up. And every time you try to get down on one knee, they push you back on your head. […] Ultimately, the message we receive when we are cancelléis that we would really like you to take your own life.”
THE CLIQUE AND THE PACK
This heartbreaking sentence from Maripier Morin, I hope not to have to hear it in 2025. It seems to me that we are due for a major reflection on the way in which the pack treats individuals, whether they have committed a fault or not.
