"I am proud of you": Amélie Mauresmo's strong message of support to six athletes who have revealed their homosexuality

On the subject, his word is rare and therefore precious.

Amélie Mauresmo, one of the first sportswomen to have revealed her homosexuality, watched "Should we speak", a Canal + documentary with six high-level sportsmen still in activity who come out and break the taboos surrounding the subject in the world of sport.

“Amandine, Astrid, Céline, Jérémy, Kevin and Jeremy, you are beautiful!

This courage, this strength, this modesty that you have.

Well done and thank you.

You send me back 22 years and let me tell you: I am proud of you.

Everything will be fine, ”the 41-year-old former player tweeted after watching the documentary.

Amandine, Astrid, Céline, Jérémy, Kevin and Jérémy, you are beautiful!

This courage, this strength, this modesty that you have…

Bravo and Thank you 🙏🏼

You send me back 22 years and I allow myself to say to you: I am proud of you!

Everything will be fine 🤍 # FautQuOnParle pic.twitter.com/MCnVZTKJc2

- AmelieMauresmo (@AmeMauresmo) June 26, 2021

Amandine Buchard, Jérémy Stravius ​​and Kevin Aymoz, three athletes present on the screen (the other three are Céline Dumerc, Astrid Guyart, Jeremy Clamy-Edroux) hastened to thank the former champion, who put an end to his professional career in 2009. Ten years earlier, then aged 19, Amélie Mauresmo revealed her homosexuality by going to kiss her companion at the time, Sylvie, after her victory in the semi-finals of the Australian Open. A month later, the couple made the cover of Paris Match. “I remember a surge that I was not prepared for at all. A mixture of violence and support ”, he confided on the airwaves of France Inter in 2019, about this revelation.

"There are some who say to themselves, but you are gay? The guy I saw pushing in a melee? Hey yeah!"

For the first time in France, a professional rugby player publicly assumes his homosexuality.

#FautQuOnParle, a documentary to see this Saturday at 11 p.m.

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- CANAL + (@canalplus) June 18, 2021

Amélie Mauresmo then continued her exceptional career, winning two Grand Slam titles.

She then converted to coaching, with success, in particular by training the Briton Andy Murray, before taking the French Lucas Pouille to the semi-finals of the Grand Slam.

The native of Saint-Germain-en-Laye now lives in the Basque Country, where she is raising her two children Aaron and Ayla with her partner Pascale.