A fact that Michel Cymes kept silent for years.
The most famous doctor of the PAF was invited to the program “C à vous” on France 5 this Tuesday, October 4 for the promotion of his book
Nothing is impossible
.
In this book, he confides in the cancer he has overcome, but also evokes a significant event, so far kept secret.
As a child, he was the victim of a sexual assault at the family home.
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"Who would believe me?"
The scene he describes is chilling.
When he was only eleven years old, his private mathematics teacher masturbated in front of him.
He then offers the young teenager to masturbate him in turn, which he refuses.
He does not immediately denounce the aggressor to his mother, present in the next room.
"Who would believe me?"
, he wrote.
Despite the fear, he asks his parents the same evening to stop math lessons.
If Michel Cymes speaks today, it is because he has perceived, as Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine points out in her interview,
“the weight of the buried secret and the damage it causes”.
He adds:
“Why am I talking about this?
Quite frankly, I would have to do an analysis, but this story did not traumatize me to such an extent that I had a somewhat difficult life afterwards
.
“On the other hand, the image is there. I was eleven, so it was a while ago, but I still see the scene, I see the space it's in, and I see myself behind this little boy. It's very weird. There are a lot of people who tell you that, after a sexual assault, you completely detach yourself. And I see the scene with hindsight today.
Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine then took the opportunity to conclude
“hence the importance of sex education”
.