Author, designer and editor Geneviève Morin posted a long message on Instagram on Tuesday indicating that she had forgiven her former lover, comedian Julien Lacroix, targeted in July 2020 by allegations of sexual misconduct.
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The young woman indicated in her long message to have felt a “deep unease with the unfolding of this story”. “I want to talk about the victim label that is stuck on my name and which has bothered me from the start, she wrote. I can’t name it any other way: for two years, the media have made me invisible under a number. New. This is the number of victims who denounced the actions attributed to Julien Lacroix. In the words of Geneviève Morin, “we give more importance to what shocks than to those who are really impacted by the shock,” she continues in her letter. It took me two years to realize (quite tragically) that we put aside the humans who are under a click story, and this, to make a splash.
Two years after the events, the young woman maintains that she comes out of it more weakened than ever, in particular by noting that “society is itself terribly violent towards the people she wants to hate”.
“So I needed to speak on my behalf to Julien, continued the one who spent six years with Julien Lacroix. I needed to listen to him, and above all to apologize for all this violence that I never condoned. Today, I want to assume the fact that I do not wish her harm. That I never wished her ill. That no matter what happened between us, I never wanted violence. »
The author of the book peace treaty for alien women therefore indicated that reconciliation was the key to his own journey. “I also took a step back and realized that this is how it should have gone all along,” she wrote. Sitting face to face, sincere, repentant and above all concerned for the good of the other. Far from the public and the clicks. I wanted to share this with everyone, I feel lighter, I’m fine. I have the impression of having closed a door and of breathing a little better… As if I had taken pressure off my shoulders. A pressure that I was exhausted from dragging on for more than two years. »
Comedian Julien Lacroix was dumped by his artistic agency, Groupe Phaneuf, in the hours following the publication of the report by To have to who first reported the allegations. He attempted a return to the stage last July, but had to cancel everything following serious threats, in particular against his family.