Invited from Europe 1, on Monday, the actress confessed to having herself been the victim of domestic violence, but not having dared to file a complaint at the time.

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"I would never have been a complaint" Several years after the events, Clémentine Célarié told Europe 1 on Monday that she herself had been a victim of domestic violence, and testified to the difficulty of finding the courage to go to a police station to file a complaint against the spouse responsible for the violence. . While in an interview in La Croix to appear Tuesday, Secretary of State for Gender Equality Marlene Schiappa pleads for the establishment of a "clear protocol" with a "precise methodology" for police and gendarmes The actress believes that "it must become normal to be protected when you get hit on".

Asked about the Secretary of State's proposals, Clémentine Célarié, currently on stage in Une vie , adapted play of the first Roman Maupassant, supports the need for new measures against violence against women, while the filing stage of complaint remains difficult for many victims. "I was a victim of domestic violence," she confides to Nathalie Lévy, claiming to have never spoken publicly before and describing the psychological barriers it was imposed. At the time, she admits, "I never would have been a complaint," because this violence "is linked to a love relationship, that some time later, the man you love cries in your arms telling you that he will never do it again. "I think we are extremely numerous to live this," she adds.

"It is important that there are serious measures"

"If it had been in 2019, with all the dialogue and all that we do around" the issue of domestic violence, the actress believes she would have been armed to go to complain. "It must be normal to be able to be protected when you get hit on it," she said again, saying "important that there are serious measures taken by the President of the Republic."