Jill Vandermeulen (Silent Jill), ex-candidate of season 5 of thestar Academy (won by Magalie Vaé) was the guest on Sunday July 17, 2022 of baby story, the Youtube show presented by Jeremstar. Present to talk about the future birth of her fourth child scheduled for November, the 34-year-old young woman looked back on her life after the star Academy. The least we can do is that she has very bad memories of it.
In 2005, then aged 17 and a half, Jill Vandermeulen took part in the fifth season of the star Academy presented by Nikos Aliagas on TF1. Already, the candidate did not seem comfortable with the outfits imposed by the production. “On bonuses, I was always wearing super short skirts. They already wanted to sexualize me, I was the bimbo”she told Jeremstar.
“I swallowed two tablets of anxiolytics”
The candidate was eliminated after a month of adventure and therefore could not participate in the traditional tour. For the young woman, not yet of age, the return to normal life was very difficult. “I experienced all of this very badly, I had a very complicated return to my family. I could not go back to school. I was told: “If you come to this school, we will die at the playgroundshe expressed still very touched by this episode.
Dejected and above all lost, Jill will then attempt the impossible: “I went through very violent stages, psychologically speaking with a suicide attempt because I was just at the end of, at the end of, at the end of what I was going through. I really lost my footing at that point. I told myself that my potential career is ruined. It ruined my life. People hate me. I get threatened with death… I no longer knew how to get my head out of the water and I swallowed two tablets of anxiolytics. It was my mother who found me unconscious at my ex-boyfriend’s house and I was transported to the emergency room.” Subsequently, the young woman was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for nervous breakdown.
Imperatively wanting to turn the page StarAcJill Vandermeulen voluntarily refused to participate in the anniversary program devoted to the 20th anniversary of the star Academy. “I am still terribly offended today by the way I was treated at the age I was and the lack of humanism that I experienced afterwards from the production. It was out of the question that I do ‘hahaha’ on the set”she said.