Singer and actress Camélia Jordana, in September 2019. -
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Camélia Jordana dots the i's.
In a column published this Friday on the Huffpost site, the 28-year-old artist deplores that several of his words have been "transformed and diverted from their meaning" in the media.
She thus refers to her statements about the police in
We are not lying
, which sparked controversy last May.
Camélia Jordana assures that her intention was to share her “fears about the growing unease between institutions and part of the population”.
At the end of January,
L'Obs
headlined an interview with the singer with the quote: "If I were a man, I would ask forgiveness".
A sentence truncated and taken out of context since in the interview she mentioned several titles from her new album and affirmed: "all of these songs say that if I were a man, I would ask forgiveness, I would question fears and I will take the time to question myself.
"" My alleged hatred of man, whether white or not, is pure invention, "insists Camélia Jordana in her gallery.
"Only the words spoken are now valid"
"The sadness that arises in me is that of the French citizen that I am and who sees her country divided, anger at the forehead and rage in the stomach," she also writes.
“I just say the things inside me.
Those that I wear and which animate me, inspire me and make me grow: nature, racism, love, feminism ", she underlines, describing herself a few lines later as" a French citizen hooked with all force to the values instilled in me by the Republican school ”.
And to conclude: "Only the words spoken are worth from now on, not those which one lends to me.
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