This Thursday, April 7, 2022, TPMP XXL, presented by Valérie Bénaïm was back on C8. Among the columnists present, Gilles Verdez, a regular with Cyril Hanouna’s band for several years. And as often on C8, the atmosphere was confidential. Confidences made during the truth game, where he had to answer a question from one of his acolytes. He asked him if he had ever almost been “beaten up in the street”, echoing his strong personality and his sometimes divisive positions. Gilles Verdez then confided that he had been the target of several intimidations over the years, until he had to make a radical decision.
“It happened to me precisely twice. Once in Roissy […] It was a few years ago, because of a position taken, a political subject I don’t remember which it was. And the person was in Roissy she said to me: ‘I know where you are going, I know what your destination is and if I went there with you, I would have kicked your ass’ She grabbed me by the collar , it was quite virulent. It did not end in fistfights but it was quite violent“, he said before specifying that he had done everything to defuse the conflict. “I try to stay calm, to talk to the person. Because when the person is that virulent. I know that it must not degenerate, “he explains.
But that’s not all. The TPMP columnist then related another fact of the same type. “A few weeks ago it was quite specific, there was someone who had followed me leaving the metro near my home, so there it was targeted and who said to me: ‘Attention, we t ‘spotted…””, he said before revealing the decision taken as a result: “And to be completely sincere with you, I have just filed a complaint for a very specific threat which arrived at my home”, he assures in front of amazed Valérie Bénaïm. And the columnist concludes: “I’m not afraid of getting my ass kicked in, but I’m very careful. I don’t take the same routes, I change my route… before I go home, I take a walk”, said he finished specifying therefore to show great caution.
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