Journalist and director Audrey Diwan has had enough, as have the 12 other women who testify in the pages of Chat, the taboo surrounding abortion. However, in 2019, 217,291 French women would have had an abortion according to INED. It is therefore with the desire to open a dialogue and raise the voices of his women that Audrey Diwan has adapted Annie Ernaux’s book to the screen, The event, which leaves this November 24 at the cinema. And on the occasion of the film’s release, 13 women from the world of music, cinema, media and politics shared their experiences. Actress Anna Mouglalis is one of her silence breakers.
The one who plays Madame Rivière in the feature film had to abort twice. “The first time, I took the morning-after pill. Afterwards, I felt that I had strange sensations, I put it down to the drug. But it didn’t work. J therefore had to have an abortion. I did not warn anyone “, tells the ex-girlfriend of Samuel Benchetrit, with whom she had a daughter named Saul (14 years old).
A few days after the operation, Anna Mouglalis has to face her father, who invited her to dinner to celebrate her 20th birthday. “I was still feeling the effects of the general anesthesia. As he is a doctor, he saw that something was wrong and worried. I reassured him: ‘I am not sick, it is because as I come out of anesthesia, I have an abortion. ‘ He left the table and left me alone at the restaurant “, confided the actress of 47 years.
Unfortunately, the one who played Coco Chanel in the cinema had to have an abortion a second time in her life. And once again, some members of his entourage reacted violently. “For my second abortion, I exceeded the legal deadline (…) Thanks to an activist network, a brilliant gynecologist agreed to prescribe a medical abortion after the deadline. The guy I was married to (Australian businessman Vincent Rae, editor’s note) wanted to use this during our divorce. He asked the lawyer to talk about it saying that I would have acted without his consent. It is someone who would have sent me to jail before the legislation …. It’s amazing! “, she remembered.
Anna Mouglalis spoke of the support of her relatives during this ordeal. “A sorority thing took place (…) The pain was present but I was lucky that it went well”.
Enora Malagré, Barbara Pravi, Valérie Damidot, Corinne Masiero also shared their testimonies in the new issue of Chat.