His book has changed many lives … including his. Leaving La Familia Grande January 5, 2021 at Seuil, Camille Kouchner perhaps did not expect to have such an impact on France. In the lines of her book, the author recounted the incest perpetrated on her twin brother when he was a teenager by their stepfather, Olivier Duhamel. This story, strong, declined in 208 pages, is in particular at the origin of the hashtag #MeTooIncest, which allowed scores of victims to be heard, but also change the law and ensures that a commission of inquiry is appointed.
Christine, she’s here
The family life of Camille Kouchner, fatally, was turned upside down by these revelations. Her relationship with her stepmother Christine Ockrent – wife of Bernard Kouchner – is not quite the same since she was integrated, despite herself, into this family drama … and somewhat “manhandled“. She was then described as a distant and cold woman who had estranged the father from her daughter. “It is treated fairly, in the book, nevertheless affirms the writer in the columns of the magazine She. We got very close and, if we’re talking about repair, then yes, she had extraordinarily restorative words. I no longer have a mother, I no longer have an aunt who was like a mother too, Christine, she is here. I don’t have a lot of women around me, that matters.“
I still don’t want to speak for him
Of course, each member of the clan has been impacted and, when asked for news of his brother, victim of Olivier Duhamel, Camille Kouchner prefers to kick in touch. “I still don’t want to speak for him, it all has to stop“, she is satisfied to specify. Mom of two, she now takes care to see how things evolve for each one, under the influence of La Familia Grande. “My 16 year old daughter read it, my 13 year old son, no he will when he wants to, she assures. We spent a lot of time together, talked a lot, because for them, as for me, the family ties were really shaken. Their challenge was to see how they were doing with their grandfather, their uncle, their cousins … how their own relationships lasted, transformed …“
Find the full interview with Camille Kouchner in Elle magazine, n ° 3968, January 6, 2022.