Flavie Flament’s coming out of silence marked a new turning point in the Patrick Bruel affair. The journalist announced that she was filing a rape complaint against the singer on Friday May 15, 2026. On Instagram, she expressed herself as follows: “10 years after La Consolation, I have a new encounter with my past. And a man who pillaged my adolescence. I am filing a complaint against Patrick Bruel for theft. So that the truth comes out, so that justice is done, so that people stop looking away, I add my voice to those of other women who are speaking out in France, Belgium and Canada. I now expect Justice to hear our Word.” The facts denounced date back to 1991, when she was barely 16 years old while the artist was 31 years old. Flavie Flament was one of the women who testified in Mediapart under the pseudonym “Eva”. Since the affair broke out, three investigations were opened to “attempted rape”, “rape” et “sexual assault”, and around thirty testimonies from women were revealed in the press.
“I am amazed”: those close to Flavie Flament react to her complaint against Patrick Bruel
Two days after Flavie Flament’s revelations, a man who has worked for a long time with the journalist, now 51 years old, speaks in the columns of Parisian : “I am amazed,” he declares. What she says today is the exact opposite of what she said a few years ago about her story with Patrick Bruel. She spoke of it as a lovely adventure. Those were his words. And above all it was not a taboo subject. She talked about it easily and on her own initiative. There was never any question of constraint in his remarks. And if I have to testify in court, I will.”
Auprès de MediapartFlavie Flament recalls a meeting in Patrick Bruel’s Parisian apartment, a few months after their meeting. She says she drank tea, before feeling a blackout and waking up “amorphous”, while the singer buttoned his pants. She also reports a scene from 2006 at Bercy, where Patrick Bruel would have talked about the time when they had “couché ensemble”. In the columns of Parisiananother close friend of the complainant also defends Patrick Bruel: “What’s strange is that when she talked about it, she didn’t seem to ask herself any questions,” said this source. She spoke of it as a consensual relationship.” And blurt out: “This tea story doesn’t make sense. They saw each other again, met again on TV sets. She never expressed the slightest reservation about him being a guest on her shows. On the contrary.”
“Some must have trouble sleeping”: when Flavie Flament revealed having suffered other sexual violence after the rape of David Hamilton
Flavie Flament’s speech comes ten years after the publication of her shocking book La Consolation. In this work, she revealed having been raped by a great photographer – who happened to be David Hamilton – when she was 13 years old. The latter committed suicide after the affair broke out. In 2024, Flavie Flament confided to Mediapart to have experienced a “recurrence of violence suffered” after this rape, without revealing his name. And to add: “Some people must have trouble sleeping.”
