In November 2023, she had a rant after the publication of a photo of her and her companion, Fabien Galthié, naked, on a beach, on the cover of Voici. Helena Noguerra considered that in the air of Me Too, such an invasion of her private life constituted a form of sexual assault. This January 31, 2024, guest of Léa Salamé, the actress looked back at the start of her career, and explained how she managed to escape sexual predators, who have always lurked around beautiful girls like her.
“Big paunchy gentlemen with big cigarss”
She remembered on France Inter: “I was a model, I started at 14, a female model, and so I was in that world, with the Epsteins and company, except that we didn’t identify them. It was our world. And so when I was invited, when I was in Milan or New York, for weekends in villas, which I imagined with big paunchy gentlemen with big cigars, around swimming pools, with sublime girls in a swimsuit, I could see that I could be one of the girls in a swimsuit.”
And to add: “But very quickly I was on cue, I saw myself in my little residence, in my hotel room, with Kundera, his unbearable lightness of being. And I preferred to spend my weekend with Kundera, and so indeed , I realized in hindsight that literature saved me”
“They had their hands on my thighs”
In fact, the one who admitted that at the start it was only a “joke” for her, confirmed: “I preferred to read, I even have images with Patrick Demarchelier, I was on their knees, because I was 15, and they had their hands while talking on my thighs, and I had a book in hand , and I was reading my book. That is to say, their hands on my body weren’t even there because I had a world in my hands.”
Helena Noguerra: “I realized in hindsight that literature saved me” from sexual predators in the fashion world. “Their hands on my body weren’t even there, because I had a world in my hands.” #le710interpic.twitter.com/xqhaWypY8k
— France Inter (@franceinter) January 31, 2024
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