Quebec singer Fabienne Thibeault confessed for the first time on French television Thursday night that she had been sexually abused twice by well-known public figures.
One of these events occurred in the 1980s during the World Film Festival (FFM) in Montreal.
The 71-year-old singer, who played the role of Marie-Jeanne in the first version of Starmania, told host Jordan De Luxe how she arrived at the top floor of the hotel where the festival was taking place and was introduced to his attacker sei – a popular singer who was around sixty years old at the time – from the president of the FFM.
“He was clean. He offered me a glass of champagne. He takes my arm and suddenly we walk towards the bedroom. “Why is this guy taking me to his room?” I tell myself. We move forward and there we are in front of a huge bay window with the whole of Montreal at our feet,” the musician explained.
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At that moment, without suspecting what was about to happen, the interpreter believed that the man wanted to go sightseeing and therefore began to describe the landscape to him; the Jacques Cartier Bridge, the working-class neighborhoods as he approached it. “He puts his cock in my hand,” said Fabienne Thibeault, stunned.
After debating whether to scream or hit him, the singer said she did so mechanically without understanding. “He cums in my hand. He takes a silk handkerchief out of his pocket. I wiped my hand and said to him, “Good evening sir, please allow me not to attend the screening tonight.” Because after that we had to go to the cinema to see a movie,” she continued.
Fabienne Thibeault then left the room and never saw this man again.
After her statement, which left the presenter Jordan De Luxe speechless, the interpreter of the immortal song The World Is Stone spoke of having suffered a second sexual assault in a different context, which she described as “more violent”. However, she refused to elaborate.
By only answering “yes” and “no” to the host who questioned her, she still implied that her attacker was “a big personality” and that he had died.
After his appearance on the show Chez Jordan, many European media outlets picked up the news, including Le Figaro, Closer magazine and the Swiss newspaper Le Matin.