The influencer and businesswoman Élisabeth Rioux lived hard weeks online after filing a complaint against her ex-boyfriend Brian McCormick for domestic violence.
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In the wake of the police complaint, Internet users, who speculated on the separation of the couple on social networks without knowing the details that led to it, began to denigrate the young mother.
“For two months, there were a lot of little” calls “on the internet. At a certain point, people hated me because I was the one who had stolen her child from her father, ”said Ms. Rioux in an interview with Denis Lévesque at LCN on Monday evening.
Despite everything, the influencer avoided the virtual confrontation for long weeks. “I didn’t want this story to come out like that, firstly because he’s my daughter’s father anyway, and secondly, […] I didn’t want to be seen as the victim, ”she explained.
About two months after making a complaint to the police against McCormick, Élisabeth Rioux however had had enough of the insults and revealed in broad daylight, on Instagram, to have been the victim of domestic violence.
“I said to myself” there, I protect him more, I am being made demonize “”, she recalled. “He knew the truth and he knew I didn’t want to tell it, so he used that a little bit.”
“This situation was too big for me. I didn’t realize what was going on and it happened super quickly. When I saw that my ex was saying that I had cheated on him, it took two minutes and I made a “story”, “added Ms. Rioux, pointing out that friends have it too. supported online, including a loved one who posted photos of his injuries on social media to demonstrate the truth of his story.
Save his daughter
The birth of Elisabeth Rioux’s granddaughter was the trigger that convinced the influencer to file a complaint against Brian McCormick.
“I was as convinced that he had mental problems. […] At that time, I was like in the “mindset” “I want to help him get out of this situation, because he has problems, he is the father of my child, he is my responsibility to help her “, but it was from the moment I gave birth and my daughter was really in danger that I acted like” ok, it’s really over “”, recounted the woman. business.
The latter confided that the episodes of violence subsided for about a month after the birth, before resuming with a vengeance, to the point of putting her life and that of her infant in danger.