Our health system is full of guardian angels and people who dedicate themselves body and soul by vocation to help us improve our living conditions. And we can never show them our gratitude enough.
But unfortunately, there are bad people everywhere. And singer Renée Wilkin had a terrible example of this on Monday when she accompanied her mother for a hip replacement.
The singer, who the Quebec public discovered on La Voix, where she was a finalist in 2014, received a completely derogatory comment from a nurse about her weight.
But even worse than the initial comment, it is the nurse’s attitude afterwards that is shocking.
Here’s what the singer shared on Instagram:
“Special greetings to my mother’s nurse who asked me earlier: “When is that beautiful baby due?” to which I replied that I was not pregnant.
Who continued to insist, laughing, as if it were impossible since I was certainly due to give birth any day now…
To whom I repeated that I was REALLY not pregnant. For her to say to me in a curt tone: “Come on, get up!”
Maybe to prove me wrong, who knows?
Of course, I refused, explaining to her that it was better not to insist when someone tells you that she is not pregnant. And yet she acted as if I had offended her.
WELL!
PS: My mother has a new hip and is doing well!”
Here’s the message in question that was posted on Renée Wilkin’s Instagram story on Monday:
Well done Renée for not accepting to be treated like this and for using your notoriety to denounce this kind of behavior which unfortunately still happens far too often!
A few years ago, Renée Wilkin was the victim of a wave of derogatory comments following a performance on Bonsoir Bonsoir. She returned to the incident by making the following comments:
She also posted the following long message:
“Well, I’m going to speak out because a lot of messages received and comments here and elsewhere degenerate into a story about clothes. I had to completely delete the post about the show on my page and others have been moderated.
Yesterday I sang Bonsoir Bonsoir. I won’t hide from you that I didn’t really know how to approach this song, I wanted to pay homage to it without making a pastiche of it and I considered that showing up in an evening dress would be a bit of a surprise. I knew that it would surprise some people who are used to seeing me on TV in my usual black dress or black suit and I went for it.
I have nothing against the fact that many people did not like my outfit. I respect all tastes.
Quite honestly, beyond the clothes, I was nervous to sing a Michèle Richard song in front of Michèle Richard. I haven’t had any television opportunities in the last few months because of covid and I was feverish. Despite my stress, I think I sang well and respected the piece while making it my own. Bravo to the fiery band and the charming children’s choir.
Unfortunately, the comments received are not about my voice. And I can already hear several people saying loud and clear “if you are in the public eye, expect to have what you wear criticized”. One woman even accused me of making up the fact that I was receiving hateful messages in private, probably since in reality I did not accept the criticism. After 5 messages in a row from a very angry lady, I admit, I blocked the user. I was then criticized for not being transparent. I took the time to calmly explain the decision to remove this person from MY page, since she was harassing me in private messages and the defendant laughed and told me that she did not believe me (a sad reflection of the latest movement of denunciations).
I also got a lot of “as a fan I’m disappointed”. Because apparently a pair of tight pants on my body calls into question my entire career, my personality, my professionalism, the woman and mother that I am.
I give you every right not to have liked my outfit, you can even point out that it was not to your taste. But I will never accept being insulted, despised or even dictated what my style really is. I was told “you are usually discreet”, “with your shape, dressing like that is ridiculous” and I was even criticized for having wanted to laugh at the piece since I myself am very far from being “beautiful”.
I want to let you know that soon, I’m releasing a music video and it might surprise you a lot more than a pair of yellow pants. That said, thank you for making me understand last night more than ever why I did it, why it will highlight bodies that are too underrepresented in pop culture, why when my children saw the images I explained to them once again that the body is just an envelope that we must learn to cherish even when others despise it because they don’t know its experience.
I came home, my eyes swollen from crying even though I thought I was stronger than that. This morning, my son asked me why I was upset. He found me so beautiful and good that he wanted us to listen to it again together. At that moment, I simply wished that he would never be one of those people behind his screen who insults or criticizes meanly.
I’ll leave you with a few examples and keep some of the more violent ones for myself.
On that note, I no longer do my job, no longer vibrate to the rhythm of my passion for 6 months and I can hardly see a glimmer of hope in the short term. Last night, I was only happy to sing for you. The current period being already rather difficult to live through, could we send each other a little more love. We all deserve it.
Take care and thank you to those who wrote to me that they liked the song »»
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