At 44, Léa Salamé is one of the most renowned French journalists, known for her tenacity and seriousness. Present on the radio every morning, Raphaël Glucksmann’s darling is also at the helm of her own show, What an erabroadcast every Saturday evening on France 2.
The journalist is also known for her numerous political interviews, often preferred to her colleague Anne-Sophie Lapix, a little less “academic” and therefore more incisive. Thus, after years of experience, Léa Salamé confides today in the columns of the Belgian magazine MAX. The opportunity for her to confide in her way of handling the criticism she receives after political interviews.
“As long as on social networks people call me as much a Macronist as an anti-Macronist, a leftist, a rightist and a reactionary, it makes me smile.” she declares in an extract from the interview published in the columns of the newspaper South Info. On the other hand, she admits that she had to face quite violent attacks: There are hurtful comments. I said ‘go back home, dirty Arab’, that made me laugh a little. Zemmour’s fans, during the presidential campaign, were wild. When I did the interview with Zemmour, whom I have known for a long time and with whom I have no problem, the number of ‘dirty Arabs’, or ‘dirty Arab whores’ – yes, there are gradations ! – which I received the next day was violent.”
Léa Salamé: her mea culpa with the former companion of the singer Angèle
We then ask the journalist if she regretted having asked THE question too many. To which the mother responds: “Once. It was with Angèle’s former boyfriend, the dancer Léo Walk, a charming boy. At the end of the interview, I asked him what he thought of Angèle’s album and he broke down, went blank. I felt like I had hurt him and I felt stupid, it wasn’t necessary, it was free.”
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