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VIDEO – Fourteen years after the “Zahia affair”, the model and actress was the guest, this Saturday, October 12, of Aurélie Casse on the set of “C l’hebdo” on France 5.
Zahia Dehar is, this Saturday October 12, the guest ofAurélie Casse in the program “C l’hebdo” on France 5. And on the occasion of her visit, the one who is presented as “the woman with a thousand and one lives” agreed to talk about the causes of her early media coverage and the consequences on his life.
“I felt like the world was collapsing on top of me. I was devastated because I knew I was going to start my life, at the age of 18, with the worst label a woman could have.”she explained to the presenter. And to continue: “For me, from that moment on, everything was going to be forbidden to me because of the slut-shaming and whorephobia that is extreme in our society. And until now, this scourge has not been resolved.”
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The young woman refers to the “Zahia affair” which made her known to the general public in 2010. While still a minor, she is suspected of having had paid sexual relations with football players, members of the team from France, including Karim Benzema and Franck Ribéry. She then denied being an escort girl and not a prostitute.
I would have been insulted every day by everyone
Zahia Dehar
“We put women in categories and women who have the misfortune of being in this category of “bad women”, in these cases society makes them pay a price which is enormous, which is horrible”she denounced on the chair of the France 5 set. A judgment of which she was the first victim, to the point of considering suicide.
“I said to myself: “What is my future concretely?” I’m going to look for work, I’m going to be humiliated by everyone. They’ll laugh at me all the time. I would have been insulted every day by everyone.” She finally decided to overcome all this media uproar by taking advantage of her notoriety. A few months after the investigation ended, Zahia Dehar took the opportunity to retrain in the world of fashion. Nearly fifteen years after the affair, she now has the hats of model, actress and lingerie designer.
