Indispensable face of the small screen, Mireille Dumas has collected for years the secrets of personalities in her shows Signed Mireille Dumas, The past rediscovered, Lower the masks Where Private life, Public life. Now based in Corsica in Porto, the 69-year-old host has long been the confidante of celebrities who have entrusted her with their terrible secrets. Touched by the various encounters she was able to make on her shows, she remembered a subject that had remained taboo on television: incest and pedophilia.
“The rape suffered in childhood is very heavy to bear. It very often involves the family, the relatives of the victim. It is an explosion that is settled in court and / or at a shrink.” confided the host to the journalists of Le Parisien. At the time, she also remembers having been very close to three guests who had confided to her that they had been the victim of rape. “When I left my shows, three actresses and an actor told me off camera that they had been raped in their childhood. I respect their discretion. They’ve never released it publicly since.“, she said, with great compassion.
Regretting that today’s celebrities no longer dare to show their point of view on television, she explains: “Artists protect themselves and prefer to control their image. They share their intimacy in books and on their networks. They appear on TV mainly for their promotion. Speech was freer twenty years ago because it had fewer consequences.“
Wife of Dominique Colonna with whom she married in 1983, the host who appeared in the documentary The TV years in 2021 recently told reporters from The Express to have completely changed his life in Corsica. Owner of a “old sheepfold clinging to a rocky peak“, Mireille Dumas is now recharging her batteries on the island of beauty in the middle of nature. “The dizzying panorama of the Gulf of Porto that opens up to me from my terrace gives me strength for an entire year.“, she indicated.