Anne Sinclair, journalist, March 6, 2017 in Paris – IBO / SIPA
Ten years later and as his memoirs soon appear, Perfect tense at Grasset, Anne Sinclair decided for the first time to deliver her “feelings” on the DSK affair, which led to the fall of the one who was then her husband, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in several interviews, to It and Paris Match.
“Was it from the grip?” “
“It may be due to him, but maybe also to me, I reproduced the pattern of dependence which linked me to my mother, tells the journalist to the magazine. It. I was with him in the fear of disagreement and the fear of displeasing him. So, was it sway, I don’t know, but in any case, submission and acceptance. »She completes in Paris Match : “This hold can be sexual, intellectual, for me it was emotional”.
In Perfect tense, the former star of TF1 chose to tell “only his feelings”: “I do not feel authorized to speak of acts which are not of my doing”. She insists on two things: “Contrary to everything that has been said, I did not want to go to the Elysee Palace, neither did he really want elsewhere, it was a series of circumstances. Second, I want people to understand that I didn’t know anything about my husband’s behavior. I know it’s very difficult to admit, I admit that myself, if someone told me that, I wouldn’t believe it, but yet it’s true ”.
The Lille Carlton affair opens his eyes
At the time Dominique Strauss-Kahn exercised “a very strong power of persuasion”, until the Carlton Lille affair opened her eyes, she explains to It. “When she sees the abject SMS of DSK claiming” material “, the crevasse between them becomes abyss”, reports Paris Match.
On May 14, 2011, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then head of the IMF and favorite for the 2012 presidential election, was arrested and then jailed after charges of attempted rape by a maid at the Sofitel, where he had spent the night. If this affair ultimately ended in a confidential financial transaction, it cost DSK his political career, later implicated in the Carlton Lille sex scandal.