‘They All Tried to Break Me’: Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story

 

 

"Pelicot explains why she decided to forgo anonymity and make the 2024 trial public. That choice made her a feminist icon, inspiring women all over France to rally around her and to demand change to France’s consent laws.

Still, Pelicot has remained in many ways an enigma. Outside of the trial, she never sat down to tell her story. But over a nearly three-hour interview last month in Paris — her first to be published with an American media outlet — Pelicot gave a candid and emotional account of the early years of her marriage; the toll that the abuse, and then the trial, took on her; the fallout for her family; and how, despite everything she has been through and the many questions that linger, she has found love and some peace in her life again."

INTERVIEW WITH GISELE PELICOT
CONDUCTED BY LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO