INTERVIEW
While she is now a successful author and is releasing her 19th novel ( Bed bug ), Katherine Pancol recently told in an interview the sexist remarks she faced when she was younger. Asked about this in Culture Media on Europe 1, the novelist further clarified the violence suffered, including rape. "What has changed with #MeToo is that we can complain, before we told you it was normal, so we had to run in the corridors to escape from the hands," she says. .
"The guys knocked you down"
Katherine Pancol began her literary career in the late 1970s, just a few years after joining the Paris Match editorial board. Before that, she chained the odd job through an agency. It is in this context that she has been harassed. "The guys knocked you down," the writer recalls. "And during my last job, the guy raped me, I could not take it anymore, I went to see him, I threatened him by asking him six months salary in advance. rage that I came out with my check and I cried on the sidewalk, "recalls Katherine Pancol. Today, the novelist dares to speak. "Before, it was not necessary," she regrets, "but it is the daily life of many women today," she says again.
A testimony that comes a few days after that of another figure of the French cultural world: the actress Adèle Haenel. The actress accused director Christophe Ruggia of "touching" and "sexual harassment".