Those who make the screens shine are currently at the Cannes International Film Festival. With one exception. Mélanie Georgiadès, better known by her pseudonym Diam’s, is certainly at the center of the documentary Hello, which was screened exclusively on Thursday, May 26, 2022, but she did not wish to join in the festivities, or even walk the red carpet. She evolves in peace, far from the media sphere, with her husband Faouzi Tarkhani and their three children, since she said goodbye to the world of rap which hurt her so much.
In 2008, for the first time, Mélanie Georgiadès appeared veiled in photographs stolen and published in the magazine Paris Match. The reactions had been relatively negative to this news, the decision was however quite natural for the young woman, reconverted to Islam. “People only had one side of the story. At that time, they are told : ‘She freaked out, she is a bad example, she’s gonna hurt the young suburban girls’she recalls. Before that, I was told: ‘You are a feminist figure, you are a model’. But I never wanted that. I had just come to tell my life in music. I wasn’t driven by fights. “
My beauty is for me, my husband, my family…
The documentary Hello, produced by BrutX, will be released in cinemas on July 1 and 2, 2022, then will be available for legal streaming at the start of the school year. Asked since she ended her musical career, Diam’s hopes that the look on the veil has evolved over time. ” It wasn’t the most importantshe recalls. The veil is something that you all see, but it is a step in a journey, where there is also prayer, Ramadan… That I feed the orphan, that I pray, that I fast or that I wear the veil, these are practices that allow me to get closer to God and to be closer to life. Please note, this only engages me. But I feel better this way. I also see the difficulties of an unveiled woman, the pressure, the judgments, the cult of beauty from which she can suffer. Me, I forgot all that. My beauty is for me, my husband, my family... “
Find the full interview with Diam’s on the newspaper’s website The Parisian.