“I was very aggressive”: Yanis Marshall explains how her relationship with Bruno Vandelli deteriorated her ties with her mother (ZAPTV)

Yanis Marshall accused Bruno Vandelli of sexual assault, and filed a complaint against the choreographer. The former dance teacher of the Star Academy would have been a minor at the time of the events. This Monday, November 4, 2024, he was on the set of It starts today to reopen this difficult chapter.

The words of alleged victims of sexual assault frees itself more and more. However, it is more taboo among men. However, last year, dancer Yanis Marshall wanted to free himself from a weight by giving his testimony. While he was onlya 14 year old teenagerpassionate about dance, he would have been under the influence of the choreographer Bruno Vandelli, against whom he filed a complaint for sexual assault. The former jury of Pop starshe denied the facts.

He in turn filed a complaint against Yanis Marshall for slanderous denunciationand rather evokes another version of the facts. This Monday, November 4, 2024, the former dance teacher of the Star Academy was received by Faustine Bollaert and her team to discuss the man who was an authority figure in her eyes. “I was in love with him. I thought it was a love story. He was my God, he was the only person that mattered in my life at that time“, said the young man.

Yanis Marshall recalls a painful time with her mother

When Yanis Marshall's mother learned the facts, she had a radical reaction. “She sent me to the United States, to the other side of the Earth”confides Yanis Marshall, for the “separate” by Bruno Vandelli. The young man experienced the situation badly, “cut off from the world, from my friends, from my mother, from everyone“. Already at the time, his mother wanted to file a complaint against the choreographer, but Yanis Marshall was strongly opposed. “I threatened to kill myself, or I said that I was going to deny it anyway“said the dancer.

Forcing him to leave France for another, distant country seemed to be the best option for his mother. A difficult and painful period, which impacted their mother/son relationship. “I was very aggressive with my mother. He took that too. He took away part of my childhood, but he also took away my relationship with my mother“. A fact for which Yanis Marshall blames “enormously” to Bruno Vandelli. “I was very close to my mother, and he completely destroyed that”. It took him “years” of personal work to succeed in rebuilding a relationship with his mother.