Faustine Bollaert is used to hearing strong testimonies in It starts today. This Monday, November 4, 2024, the host notably received Jordan de Luxe. Both returned to a painful period in the presenter's life: his school bullying.
It is a meeting very popular with viewers. It is also the place of strong emotionswhether positive or negative. The show It starts today addresses delicate, sometimes taboo themes, and relays important testimonies for the public. Its host Faustine Bollaert is often caught up in her emotions, throughout the stories of her guests. This Monday, November 4, 2024, she received three personalities to discuss with them the #Metoo of men.
Among them, singer Gwendal Marimoutou, victim of sexual abuse while he was still minor. The former dance teacher of the Star AcademyYanis Marshall, also returned with great emotion to the terrible facts of which he accuses Bruno Vandelli, famous choreographer. Finally, the third and final guest, Jordan de Luxe, also spoke about the abuse he suffered. The 35-year-old also looked back on a painful period in his life.
Jordan de Luxe has already thought about ending things to escape his harassers
Jordan de Luxe is a harassed former student. On the set of It starts todayhe explained that the child he was had started to believe his classmates, who kept telling him that he “was of no use“. This cruel litany crept into him little by little. On his “dark ideas”he states: “One evening, I said to myself, ‘I’m going to stop everything’”. Sexual assault victim remembers one particularly difficult evening when “through violent messages, looks“and absence of friends, a “very special light” came to him.
“There is as if a voice which sees says: 'Come. Get the hell out, it will do you good, because at least there, we won't bother you anymore […] Come with me, jump out of the window, jump because you're going to be okay, wherever we're going to take you. We are going to take you to a world where there will be nothing left, where you will be peaceful, where when you get up in the morning, we won't bother you anymore‘”confided the host, his voice choked with emotion. His very strong testimony shook the whole scene. Today, the young man who has his own show considers himself “saved” through his passion and television.
