In 2007, naked photos of Laure Manaudou, then a world swimming star, appeared on the internet. In a Canal+ documentary, the former swimmer explains how she was trapped by her boyfriend at the time.
The scandal broke out in 2007, the year of his two world titles in the 200m and 400m. A true swimming star, Laure Manaudou, who has just celebrated her 21st birthday, finds herself at the heart of a real scandal after the leak of photos of her showing her naked. In the documentary “Laure, Laure, Laure”, broadcast on Canal+, the 2004 Olympic champion returns in detail to this extremely painful episode.
“I remember shaming my family. I said to myself 'but damn…' After the whole Italian episode (his sulfurous relationship with the Italian swimmer, Luca Marin, Editor’s note), there is still something that is polluting me. As luck would have it, it comes out just as I'm leaving Italian. Except that it was not the Italian who was in possession of these photos,” explains Laure Manaudou.
“Send you a photo and if you don’t send it to me, I’ll leave you”
The former swimmer is referring to her boyfriend at the time, a certain Pierre-Henri, with whom she maintained a relationship after leaving Luca Marin. “It was a relationship where it was: 'Send you a photo and if you don't send it to me, I'll leave you'. So, I did it. And the next day, I said to myself 'well shit, I I'm stuck, I'm going to have to stay with this guy for the rest of my life…' As the days went by, he had more photos and every day he told me 'you send me a photo otherwise I'll put it all on the internet'. I said to myself done, I have to…' Until the day I made the decision to leave this person.”
-“I said to myself ‘too bad’, I’m leaving him and I’m taking the risk that there will be all these photos on the internet”, continues Laure Manaudou. “And the photos on the internet came out a year after the breakup with this person. It was like rape actually. Everyone had seen the photos. It was a bit like the beginning of social networks, so I received 15,000 from them. times a day. 'You're a slut, you're a bitch…' It still happens a little today. What can destroy a person more than intimacy? was very, very complicated to manage.”
Laure Manaudou had already returned to this episode in her autobiography “Entre les ligne”, published in 2014. “With Pierre, I don’t dare say no. Does he want these photos? I do so. (…) Soon, I am completely naked, and even more than naked, I reveal my breasts, my buttocks, my penis… The idea crosses my mind that I am sending bullets to kill me, that these photos are like a loaded gun. a lover's hand dismissed,” she detailed.
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