In her documentary "Salam", which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the former French rap star talks about her conversion to Islam, which she says prevented her from "blowing herself up".
Her appearances had become rare. Diam’s the former rapper, who presented her documentary Salam at the Cannes Film Festival, spoke at length about her conversion to Islam in an interview with the newspaper Le Parisien on Thursday ( May 26) after, among other things, attempting suicide. ”I was drugged with medication that first knocked me out and then uninhibited me,” the former hip-hop singer said. Before assuring, “If I hadn’t opened the Koran one night on a beach in Mauritius and found meaning in my life, I think I really would have killed myself.”
The now 41-year-old also came back to her decision to wear a veil, which surprised herself at the time. ”I also see the difficulties of an unveiled woman, the pressure, the judgements, the cult of beauty she can suffer from. I myself have forgotten all that. My beauty is for me, my husband and my family,” she said.
Another interview, this time filmed, that the former rapper gave to the media company Brut also caused many responses on social networks. Journalist Caroline Fourest, known for her vehement defence of secularism, called those remarks she made “pure propaganda”, among other things.
Others, like Bruno Attal, a police unionist and parliamentary candidate for Reconquête, described Augustin Trapenard’s interview in the online medium as ” compliant “.