While the current Miss France, Angélique Angarni-Filopon, has been under fire from criticism and insults since her election, a former beauty queen is also the victim of despicable attacks: Maëva Coucke.
This Wednesday, January 22, Olivier Delacroix will be back with a brand new episode of his program In Olivier’s eyes. A program, broadcast in the second part of the evening on France 2, entirely devoted to cyberharassment, and the tragedies it causes. We will hear the testimony of a former Miss France: Maëva Coucke.
Maëva Coucke insulted by all names: “Let someone come and dirty me…“
While she was crowned Miss France 2018 – when she was only 23 years old – Maëva Coucke continues to suffer from cyberharassment today and has to deal with sexism. Now an influencer specializing in beauty and automobiles, she claims to receive almost daily insults about her physique like “skeleton”, “bread board”, “broomstick” or even “error of nature”… Criticisms about her appearance which sadly echo those of which Angélique Angarni-Filopon is also a victim, who also has to deal with racism and a supposed victory of wokism according to her detractors.
“It was the dream of my life. I knew that in that moment my life was going to change. And finally, I felt a wave of hatred. Being called a whore or a slut, I wasn’t asking for that much, I just wanted to be Miss France (…) I found critics that I had known when I was in college. Except that here, they were adults. I never even noticed that people were so mean and so virulent.”she explained to Olivier Delacroix. Before entrusting: “It was not Miss France who was targeted, but me as a woman (…) I have always tried to be a good person. To have someone come and dirty me, it distraught me.”
“Some people prefer not to be alive anymore” : Maëva Coucke sounds the alarm
According to Maëva Coucke, who recently underwent whitlow surgery during Christmas, Miss France has become a target of choice for haters. “We thought we had reached the summit with Ève Gilles, and we realize that not with Angélique, where racist remarks are mixed in. We are not prepared for that”she confided in parallel to The Voice of the North.
Well aware that this speech will once again expose her to a wave of harassment, the former Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais prefers to take the risk and thus raise awareness a little more. “This goes too far. Those behind Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or X must understand that cyberharassment is a scourge and that it is up to them to act”she said. Before concluding bitterly: “Because of bad words, people prefer not to be alive anymore”.
