This is the first time she speaks on television after accusing Gérard Muller of sexual assault in an investigation published in ELLE magazine.
Muriel Cousin is present this Saturday, February 10 on the set of “C l’hebdo, hosted by Aurélie Casse.
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“We are stupid when we are attacked. We have interpretations against ourselves
,” explains Muriel Coussin after detailing the touching that Gérard Miller allegedly imposed on her during a hypnosis session:
“I was lying on the ground, he got next to Me.
He started putting his hand under my sweater, touching my breasts, then his hand in my pants on my penis
.
The radio host took ten years before talking about it to those around her, wondering for a long time if she had not exaggerated the interpretation of what she experienced.
However, she does not confront her alleged attacker in court.
“It was before #MeToo, we didn’t file complaints
,” she remembers.
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A trauma which has
“dramatic consequences”
on his private life.
Muriel Cousin evokes episodes of bulimia, anorexia and scarification.
“We want to have pain other than the pain we have within ourselves
,” declares the woman who was Stéphane Guillon's companion.
During her interview, she also mentions two rapes, one of which was as a teenager:
“Each trauma makes us more easily become prey.
There is a vulnerability that sets in.
Predators smell the prey.
“Apart from my children and my friends, I have missed almost everything in life because of these traumas
,” she analyzes.
Accused by 54 women
To date, there are 54 women who accuse Gérard Miller of similar acts or attempted attacks, which allegedly took place between 1993 and 2020.
“He is supposed to heal souls who have trauma, not create them.
We agreed to do the hypnosis session, but that's how he catches his prey.
There was no seduction, no ambiguity at the start.
He has a technique that is so chiselled
,” she testifies on France 5.
“He’s a serial aggressor.
It has a signature, it's hypnosis.
He’s a mass aggressor
,” adds Muriel Cousin.
In fact, the testimonies always tell the same modus operandi.
For his part, Gérard Miller declares:
“nothing that I perceived indicated to me that they wanted to put an end to the situation, because otherwise I would have put an end to it at that very moment”
.
He recognizes, however, that he was
"de facto a man of power"
, and that there was therefore
"an objective asymmetry"
between women and him.
This evening in “C l’hebdo”, Muriel Cousin describes her defense as
“pitiful”
.