“The hand that approaches the knee …”

Elodie Frégé immediately gained notoriety in 2003, after winning the third season of the Star Academy. But in its early days, this native of the Nièvre was faced with delicate situations. Guest at the microphone of Laurent Baffie’s podcast, Colonoscopythe 43 -year -old singer remembered a meeting that had particularly shocked her …

Elodie Frégé, “disgusted“By a producer:”The hand that approaches the knee …“”

Before participating in the Star Academy, Elodie Frégé tried to get other opportunities to make herself known in the world of music. “”I had an appointment with a pseudo producer. I was going to a site called Casting.fr Because I absolutely wanted to try to be part of a group. I wanted to do this“She first told Laurent Baffie.

But the meeting quickly took a disturbing turn. “”The guy was in a car, a little bud, and I was a plouquette. At one point, he tells me, with the hand that approaches a little of the knee: ‘You know, to be part of this job, we will have to make concessions’“She recalls.

Outraged, Elodie Frégé quickly understood these inappropriate implications and therefore took advantage of an opportunity to disappear: “I got out of the car in the red light and I never saw the guy again, I would not even remember his name. And I said to myself: ‘Wow’. It disgusted me a little. “

Elodie Frégé, “shocked” to the Star Academy : “I don’t know why I accepted“”

After his victory at the Star Academythe title of the title The belt was also faced with sexism, even more significant in its early days: “The era at which I started to make music and comedy was an era during which everyone allowed themselves, in any case patriarchy and very male power “.

Even during her adventure at the Château de Dammarie-les-Lys, Elodie Frégé suffered humiliating or even misogynist situations. In the book Everything for musicfrom Chloé Tibaud, the singer, for example, remembered a “experience“Who has it “Really shocked” during a prime of the show: “I do not know why I accepted. I had to sing ‘without counterfeiting’ of Mylène Farmer and, in your opinion, while I said: ‘I am a boy’, what had they imagined for this project? I had to wear alluring underwear, a corset pigeoning tights, jarretels and high heels“.