Rosalie Vaillancourt does not regret having believed the friend who told her of her alleged rape by comedian Julien Lacroix or having testified to it in the journalistic investigation of the To have topublished in 2020, which reported the comedian’s sexual misconduct with nine alleged victims.
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“Even today, I think I did the right thing,” she explained on the show on Thursday. We’ll tell each other.
In the La Presse + file on the Julien Lacroix affair published on Wednesday, some of the victims returned to their testimonies from two years ago and said they regretted having denounced Lacroix.
One of them, Geneviève Morin, had told Rosalie Vaillancourt that she had been sexually assaulted by her ex, Julien Lacroix. Since then, the friend has nuanced her story.
Quoted in the La Presse + file, Rosalie Vaillancourt wanted to recall the facts. “I have nothing to hide, I said I believed someone; is it wrong to say that? No. I still believe what I was told, ”she said on the Sébastien Diaz show.
The comedian claims to have received death threats following participating in the article in the To have to of July 27, 2020 entitled Julien Lacroix targeted by allegations and sexual misconduct.
“Me, why I was in this article is that I believed someone who told me regarding his rape, his alleged rape. What I did was say to a girl: I believe you and if you want to go talk regarding it, I’ll say that I believe you – since I too have seen actions – but I believe you you. Then I had testimonies too and I believed them. »
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Even if she does not regret having corroborated the story of her friend, Rosalie Vaillancourt claims to regret the slippage on social networks and the absence of justice for the victims.
“The thing I regret is how it happened,” said the comedian, who is not one of the nine alleged victims. What I regret is that there is no solution. We would like there to be a legal solution so that the victims can speak and feel protected and that the alleged aggressor can return to his life. »
Rosalie Vaillancourt insists that none of the people involved in this affair wanted to see Julien Lacroix suffer, “neither at the beginning, nor now two years later, nor even suffer at all. There, I suffer and Julien suffers, ”she said.