“My daughter saved my life,” said Nathalie Simard in a long podcast interview with Marie-Claude Barrette Open your game. The singer experienced several difficult moments in her life, including the denunciation of her attacker and her personal reconstruction.
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Nathalie Simard was sexually abused between the ages of 11 and 18 by her manager Guy Cloutier, who was sentenced to 42 months in prison in 2004 and claims that the trigger behind her denunciation has a name: Ève. Her daughter.
“If I hadn’t denounced him, I wouldn’t be here anymore,” admits Nathalie Simard.
“I don’t regret it that much. Even though it was a hard and long road, full of judgments because I was judged,” continues the woman who lost everything at some point.
The artist allegedly did it “for the money” and to boost her career. She was called a liar, a profiteer. “I heard, read and experienced everything. It was also difficult and difficult for my little girl,” she explains.
His biggest regret? That her daughter sometimes had to play the role of mother in certain difficult moments. “This should never have happened,” she said through tears.
Free with the #metoo movement
Nathalie Simard says that she began to breathe and live properly again in 2017 with the emergence of the #metoo movement.
“I saw that I was not alone. I am proud to have done it (denounce*) for women, for my daughter, for all children. I really would have liked someone to guide and warn me, to tell me through prevention and awareness: This is not right,” says the woman who recently appeared on the program Sortezme from here.
After his denunciation, however, the difficult moments for René Simard’s little sister multiplied; unhealthy environment, eating disorders, bulimia, complaining, hints of his trauma in his sexuality, overprotection of his daughter, toxic relationship, difficulty getting pregnant…
“I was awkward, I was a young woman trying to take back control of her life. I lost everything defending myself and trying to save my honor. It was hell. We were on the street,” she says.
Today, the singer and radio host says she is happy to grow old and have a beautiful relationship with her daughter and lover, and proud of her strength and determination.
“I am happy, but I will always be an eternally anxious person,” adds the artist, who admits that she is afraid that one day her happiness will end.
-The full episode of the podcast Open your game with Marie-Claude Barrette and Nathalie Simard offered online.