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The end of promotion of Nicolas Bedos’ latest book was disrupted by scathing interventions by humorist Paul de Saint-Sernin around the concept of consent.
Television – moment of floating around Léa Salamé. In the latest issue of the program What erabroadcast this Saturday, May 3 on France 2, the passage of actor and director Nicolas Bedos for the release of his book did not go exactly as planned.
We are then at the very end of a conversation around The thirst for shame (Editions of the Observatory) in bookstores on May 7. An autobiographical and therefore intimate story of 300 pages around Nicolas Bedos alcohol addiction. But not only, since the writer also tells of a rape of which he was the victim but also his relationship to his recent conviction for sexual assault on two women. Which earned him a year in prison, including six months suspended.
Far from having been light, the conversation between Léa Salamé and Nicolas Bedos was about to end when the humorist Paul de Saint-Sernin, a humorous joker of the program invited to react when he wishes from his headquarters in the audience, decides to speak at the end of this sequence.
« I am working to make this shame lead to dignity “, Concluded the director of The heyday et Oss 117: red alert in black Africa. The following seconds, Léa Salamé is cut in her recall from the release of the book by the ” sniper »From the France 2 program.
“It’s serious what we say there …”
« All the money raised thanks to the sale of this book will be donated to an association of victims », He slips in a moment still heavy, as evidenced by the face of Nicolas Bedos or the public present on the set. “” You don’t know, I just decided it “, He adds to the address of Nicolas Bedos, who first nods with a smile. But during the applause of the public, visibly amused by this intervention, Nicolas Bedos changes of tone with Paul de Saint-Sernin and replica with gravity: “It’s serious what we say there … it’s serious what we say there!” »».
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« Yes, but it was a way to show you that it is important consent “, Then replies the young humorist” Bah yes “, only has time to answer his interlocutor before receiving a new spike. “” I decide that the money is donated to this association, without asking you your opinion He adds then, causing a long tense smile on the face of Nicolas Bedos.
The humorist here clearly refer to the two cases of sexual assault for which Nicolas Bedos was sentenced last October. A first complainant accused her of having headed for her during an evening, before reaching out to her gender, over her jeans. The second, waitress in a bar in the capital accused the artist of having caught him by the waist and kissed in the neck, without his consent. Two cases for which he was found guilty. Nicolas Bedos was also relaxed in another case of sexual harassment, “For the benefit of doubt”.
Feeling the moment of tension installed in a few seconds by the scathing remark of Paul de Saint-Sernin, Léa Salamé takes over to finish her conclusion on the book, then leaving Nicolas Bedos time to get up and leave, without the slightest word.
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