His chaotic childhood, his version of the facts at the Sofitel, the attitude of American justice, his life since 2011… Nafissatou Diallo, who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape, comes out of his long silence in a long-lasting interview with Paris Match , Thursday.

It is "a story that will follow her until the end of [her] days": for the first time since 2012, Nafissatou Diallo speaks publicly about the Sofitel affair, which precipitated the fall of Dominique Strauss -Kahn in May 2011. With Paris Match, the former maid of the New York hotel confides at length in an interview published on Thursday.

She delivers her version of the facts, talks about her life since what she calls "the accident" and charges American justice.

Without feeling any regrets about the way she behaved during the affair that upset the French presidential election of 2012.

"Trapped and Betrayed"

There is first this May 14, 2011, when Nafissatou Diallo meets Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then boss of the International Monetary Fund, in suite 2806 of the Sofitel in New York.

"That day everything changed. That memory will never leave me," she said nine years later.

DSK has always denied having raped her, but she claims to have "told the truth" about what happened in that room.

"I was trapped and betrayed. I will never get over the way New York prosecutors treated me," the ex-maid continues.

"Because of what they did to me, I wanted to kill myself."

A year and a half after the events, an agreement was reached with Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

The former socialist favorite in the French presidential election is far from the Elysee when the case is closed.

If the amount of the transaction has never been revealed, Paris Match advances the sum of one million dollars.

"I wanted to get out of this story as quickly as possible," she recalls.

I had absolutely no intention of writing a book at the time. "What she is preparing today, with a new book on the case to" give [her] truth ".

"Totally DSK's fault"

A "truth" devoid of regret for her attitude during the affair, she told the weekly: "If I had to do it again, I would do exactly the same. What happened fell on me. told the truth and I was deprived of justice ", she says today, eager to" create a foundation to help women who, like me, arrived in America without education, without even speaking the language , and who have lived through horrible situations. "

After having closed a restaurant in the Bronx because of the curious who pressed her questions, Nafissatou Diallo refuses to speak about her current life to "protect herself".

She slips a few words about the former president of the IMF, whose political future was shattered one day in May 2011: "It's totally his fault. If you are running for president of a country, it you mustn't attack people. "

Today, the former maid has nothing to say to him: "I don't want to know what is happening to him. I don't want to think about him anymore."