The Portrait: Lydia Hadjara, “I was Raël’s sex slave”

For 21 years, Lydia Hadjara was a member of one of the most famous sects in the world: the Raëlians. She was closest to the guru Raël, who, she says, raped her, inflicted the worst abuse, with the indirect blessing of her mother, proud of her daughter's status in the organization. After years of indoctrination, she finally fled. Destroyed, but combative, she tries to rebuild herself by recounting what she says she suffered from a very young age.