The couple Jean-Philippe Perras and Maripier Morin almost did not survive the turmoil in which the host found himself in the summer of 2020. “We are all trying to save our buttocks”, admits the comedian at the microphone of the Podcast Seeds of Hope.
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Jean-Philippe Perras does not hide it: he thought of leaving Maripier Morin when she found herself in the midst of controversy, in July 2020, following allegations of sexual misconduct and racism on the part of the singer Safia Nolin.
“Of course I thought regarding leaving. You look at that and it’s a mountain, an Everest,” says the 36-year-old actor. His hesitation, however, only lasted 40 seconds. “I chose my girlfriend, love, my heart which said: we are going to cross it, this affair. »
Despite everything, Jean-Philippe Perras would not change anything in the course of his couple. The actor notably returned to the moment when he accompanied his lover to Maison Péladeau, where she was regarding to undertake a 21-day therapy.
“I cried because in all this chaos, I felt that you were, and that we were, in the right place,” recalls the father of their daughter Margot.
The actor, who will be in the series Meganticalso chose sobriety the day Maripier left therapy.
“I knew that for the rest of the things I was going to need all my head. I realized that I had to learn from his journey. »
“Spiritual bottom”
Still at the microphone of Grains of Hope, Maripier Morin became emotional when she mentioned the publication of the second article revealing new allegations of racist remarks, unsolicited sexual touching and physical assault, in May 2021 in La Presse . “I had reached a spiritual low ground,” she admits.
The broadcast of this episode of the Grains of Hope podcast represents one more step in Maripier Morin’s Stations of the Cross, who wishes to rehabilitate his image and regain his place in the Quebec artistic community. She made her return to the screen last August with the role of Arlette in the film of the same name by Mariloup Wolfe.
After a postponement of several weeks, the episode was posted this Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on the Grains of Hope YouTube channel.
In July 2020, Safia Nolin had publicly declared that Maripier Morin had bitten her in the thigh, had shown sexual misconduct and had made racist remarks towards her in a bar in May 2018. She had then lost numerous contracts and had to withdraw completely from public life.
