Solène Delinger 11:11 a.m., March 8, 2024
On March 13, Marie Portolano will publish "I am the woman on the set", a book about the attacks she suffered during her career.
The sports journalist has already accused Pierre Ménès of sexual assault after a program broadcast in 2016, but she never filed a complaint against her former colleague.
Three years after the broadcast of her documentary
I am not a slut, I am a journalist,
Marie Portolano denounces the sexist and sexual violence that she experienced during her career in the book
I am the woman on the set
, published by Stock .
An attack particularly marked the
Télématin
presenter : in 2016, her colleague Pierre Ménès raised her skirt on the set of
Canal Football Club
.
"He was fighting for his life..."
That day, Marie Portolano was on her period and feared that the public and guests of the show had seen blood on her underwear.
“I wondered if people were going to see the blood, talk about it on social networks… It was horrible,” she confides in her book.
Her husband Grégoire Ludig from Palmashow was “uncomfortable for her”, writes the journalist.
“I saw in his eyes that he was aware of the humiliation I had felt,” she adds.
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However, Marie Portolano never filed a complaint for sexual assault against Pierre Ménès.
“He became seriously ill at that time and, ultimately, what I experienced was less than the danger of death. He was fighting for his life, me against misogyny,” she explains in an interview given to Le
Parisien
.
Pierre Ménès, for his part, never understood why Marie Portolano had accused him in her documentary
I am not a slut, I am a journalist.
"She said I lifted her skirt. I said I didn't remember because I was too sick. It was the last show before I disappeared from the air before my transplant ( ...) I would really like to talk to Marie about this again one day. She certainly has some reproaches to make of me, I too have some reproaches to make of her (…) I regret that she told me this story of skirt, five years later, in the middle of an interview without even having warned me before", he assured in the show
Les Incorrectibles
in 2021. How to explain such denial?
"Like most of the accused in these circles, these are people who have been encouraged for years to continue to behave like assholes. So obviously, when they suddenly can't do it anymore, they don't don't understand it", assures Marie Portolano who hopes to raise awareness with her work, strong and above all necessary.