On several occasions, Corinne Masiero confided in the media, on her past as a homeless person and on the other unknown difficulties linked to life in the street such as rape, racketeering but also violence of all kinds. If the actress is hailed today for her talents as an actress and adored by her fans, she has indeed known the hell of the street and has just made new confidences about this sad period in an interview granted to Raw.
Born in Douai in 1959, Corinne Masiero is the daughter of a cleaner mother and a driving school manager father. At just 15 years old, she started a hitchhiking tour of Europe. Upon her return, she unfortunately sinks into alcohol, drugs and prostitution and finds herself on the street. “When you’re a chick on the street, it’s double punishment. You get raped much more often than when you’re a guy. You get attacked, extorted” she remembered. “When you have nothing left, you no longer have access to anything, you will give a blowjob so you can sleep with the guy you are giving the pipe to or you will sell your ass to have something to eat” he said. – she let go.
Corinne Masiero saved by the theater
It was finally the world of theater that saved her and allowed her to “get off the streets”, all after an invitation and a “dumb exercise” that made her realize that she had the right to exist and to be heard. At the age of 28, she began acting and took her first steps with the street theater company “Collectif Organum”. Enough to allow her to set foot in the seventh art world since she appears for the first time in the cinema in the film “Germinal” by director Claude Berri.
If some have discovered her in the series “Capitaine Marleau”, a real success in which she bursts the screen, the most informed have also seen her performance in the film “Louise Wimmer” released in 2012, a role written to measure for her. by director Cyril Mennegun and which earned her a César nomination in the “Best Actress” category.
Recently, Corinne Masiero also revealed that she was a victim of incest when she was a child. “It’s a time when I was still in kindergarten, how could I land there? It’s a crazy thing. Most sexual assaults are within families.” and the actress to add: “What is difficult is that we actually say to ourselves that I am not even shit, I am an object. We take you as we want, we make you do what we wants and after a while, you end up believing it…”.
Committed to politics, Corinne Masiero now supports the movement against the pension reform project.
This is the story of an actress who has come a long way. She has experienced incest, the street… Engaged in the cinema, she is also mobilized in politics, in particular against the pension reform. Here is the story of Corinne Masiero. pic.twitter.com/fHqM8M4mIt
— Brut FR (@brutofficiel) April 17, 2023
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