By participating in Love is in the meadow (season 16, in 2021), Nathalie thought she would find the man of her life and make her voice heard, that of battered women. An experience that did not go as planned for the calf breeder near Guérande considered unfriendly. She, who had already expressed her disappointment with the production but also with Karine Le Marchand, speaks again, in the columns of the local media The Echo of the Guérande peninsula and Saint-Nazaire. This time, her daughter Samantha is also speaking out.
“If I had known what came out of it, I would never have entered it. I was naive, I believed in benevolence, the film crew was very nice, we did not expect this result“, regrets Samantha. For her, “everything is scripted”. And to evoke the image sent back by her mother on the screen: “Throughout the season, it looks like my mom is just peeking and yelling. Well, it’s true that she yells sometimes, but she also laughs a lot! She is generous and cheerful. The image she gives, with this montage of sentences taken out of context and where all the nice moments have been removed, does not reflect who she really is.“In Short, She Is”disappointed“.
Same feeling for Nathalie. “The montages gave me the image of a mean, aggressive, hurtful, hysterical, unwelcoming woman, in short, a real c….. And that, it gives reason to men who hit their wives telling them it’s their faultdeplores the one who recently lost her dog to cancer. For 18 years, I was the victim of violence, convinced that I had really looked for it, my ex-husband repeated it to me often enough. It took me 15 years to get rid of this guilt, to get my head above water. And there, they plunge it back into me with this appalling portrait which would basically mean that I had well deserved it. No one would have wanted the life I had.“
Remember that during the broadcast of Love is in the meadowNathalie had received hate messages related to domestic violence.