More than a week after having testified in the columns of Elle magazine, Muriel Cousin is at it again.
Guest of the show C l'hebdo on France 5, this Saturday, the journalist and radio host returned to the sexual assault she suffered at the hands of psychoanalyst Gérard Miller.
In all, four women accuse him of rape and eighteen of sexual assault.
Muriel Cousin met Gérard Miller shortly after her studies, while she was doing an internship in a magazine.
The psychoanalyst then arrived in the editorial office looking for a guinea pig for an article on hypnosis.
Interested in therapies, the journalist offered herself.
“I said to myself: it’s great,” says Muriel Cousin.
“And then, we have no idea, he has such an aura, he is an intellectual.
And in particular a psychoanalyst, he is supposed to treat wounded souls, souls who have had trauma,” continues the host, who claimed during the show to have been raped in a swimming pool when she was 14 years old.
“I was really bad, I was devastated”
The pretext session begins.
“I lay down on the floor, he got next to me, and he started to touch my breasts, to put his hand in my pants, on my penis,” confides Muriel Cousin.
I had an instinct to flee, and I left.”
"He started a hypnosis session, started putting his hand under my sweater, in my pants. I was really bad, I was devastated."
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Stunned and stunned, the young journalist decides not to tell anyone.
“I was really bad, I was devastated.
I did not understand.
I wondered if it was part of the therapy process,” says Muriel Cousin.
“We feel stupid when we are attacked.
I met him again afterwards, he acted as if nothing had happened.
After a while I said to myself maybe I'm a myth.
Maybe I had overinterpreted something that wasn’t so serious.”
The radio host ended up delivering her story to the general public, in the columns of Elle magazine on January 31.
In all, four women accuse him of rape and eighteen of sexual assault.
The journalists behind the investigation said Thursday that these first testimonies, including that of Muriel Cousin, prompted 41 women to contact them.
Gérard Miller, 75, assured Elle “that he had never sexually abused anyone, under any circumstances”.
He had anticipated this publication, indicating on X (formerly Twitter) that he had been informed by the two authors of the publication of an article “seriously questioning” him.