It could have been his secret. In 2016, Bastien Grimal joins the cast of the tenth season of Secret Story. His mission was to bethe alibi of couple” formed by the winner Julien Geloen and Sophia. But the young man, eliminated at the gates of the grand final, could have hidden another confidential fact: he is addicted to sex. This Tuesday, October 11, 2022, facing Faustine Bollaert on her show It starts today (France 2), he testifies.
“Sex addiction was a problem back then. Today, it is not necessarily settled but it is no longer a problem in my life.then confides Bastien Grimal nicknamed Bastos. I considered it to be an addiction from the moment it harmed my lifeto my time, my social life, my work, my ability to feel things for women, to have emotions.“He had his first sex when he was 18, but it wasn’t until three years later that it all kicked off, when he went to live in New York to do club promotion. “My job was to bring pretty girls back to nightclubs to give the establishment a good image. I had a rockstar lifestyle! It’s become very very easy to sleep with girls“, says the candidate of reality tv seen in The people of Marseilles.
And at that time, Bastos did not experience this situation as suffering. “I was enjoying it, loving it, it was awesome and I was doing it more and more. It happened to me in a single evening to have three sexual relations with three different women“, he regrets. Finally, the addiction changed over time: he went from a need for many conquests to a need for sex often, but with the same partners. “I’m talking abouta little girl’s soccer team that I see regularly but not too much“, he explains.
Faced with this disease, and he insists that it be recognized as such, the ex-companion of Mélanie Dedigama and Belle Longwell launched a challenge in order to “wean“.”I had to go 40 days without sex, the first time I lasted 2 days. Finally I managed to last 15 days. Then with the help of confinement, I managed to last 2 and a half monthshe says. I didn’t stop masturbation but the fact of seeing girls regularly. Then afterwards, still masturbating and consuming pornography, I saw no one.” At the time of filming, Bastos, then in a relationship, said he was satisfied and fulfilled.