As tradition dictates, it is with the summary that Léa Salamé began her new unprecedented number of What an era! Saturday May 3, 2025. “It is the story of a man who falls, a forfeiture. Last October, the author, actor, director Nicolas Bedos was sentenced to one year in prison, including six months firm with electronic bracelet port for two acts of sexual assault. He refused to appeal for the sake of appeasement he says, First recalled Léa Salamé before welcoming her guest. But he decided to get out of silence and tell everything in a book. His faults, his excesses, his fall, the evil he was able to do to other women and what his business says of the time. He calls it Thirst for shame, He does not deny anything, he assumes, recognizes that he was an asshole but also wants to understand what led him to act like this. His book will react but also think. Nicolas Bedos speaks for the first time.“
The 46 -year -old filmmaker was then welcomed on set, without the presence of other guests, including Louis Sarkozy and Anny Duperey. Léa Salamé wanted to be very frank with her guest once he was installed. She was not sure that bringing him to his set was a good idea … He who had not appeared on TV for a little over two years, “two and a half years even“, As Nicolas Bedos said.
“This is not the book of a guy who comes to whine on his fate”
“I admit that we have hesitated to invite you, I will tell you the truth, to give you the floor tonight, only a few months after your conviction“started the journalist before explaining why she finally agreed to receive it:”But we read this book, we read The thirst for shame At the Observatory, you must recognize that you say things, that it is not the book of a guy who comes to whine on his fate, which has just complained of an injustice, of the time, of manhunt, that women, harpies, hysterics pursue men to take revenge. You do not spare the time in this book there but it’s not just that.” “For the first time, a man, accused and condemned, says yes, he did harm, yes, he abused his power, that he had a feeling of overpowerness, that he was a megalomaniac seducer who believed that everything was allowed“continued Léa Salamé without sparing the son of Guy Bedos described as”asshole“Referring to the last coverage of Point With the filmmaker. Among the denominations of Nicolas Bedos in his book, the rape of which he was the victim on the part of an actor in vogue in the 90s and whose name he reveals.
And if Nicolas Bedos knows that his book will not repair the evil he has done, he reiterated why he was a necessity for him: to make people think and try to give meaning to the errors he made. Sensitive to the evolution of Nicolas Bedos, that he is today able to recognize his wrongs, assume them and put the right words on it, Léa Salamé thus wished to give him the floor even if this interview risks arouse many comments.
