In a long interview with Le Parisien, Monday March 25, the Canadian singer breaks the silence and delivers her version of the clash with Inès Reg.
Natasha St-Pier comes out of the silence. At the end of January, in the middle of rehearsals for Dancing with the Stars on TF1, an altercation between the 31-year-old comedian, Inès Reg, and the Canadian singer broke out. Two months later, Inès Reg returned to the affair on Sunday on Instagram. The opportunity to claim to have “only been a victim” in this story and above all, to deny any death threat against Natasha St-Pier, who recently filed a handrail.
Speaking to Le Parisien, Natasha St-Pier recognizes this: “Part of what she says [in her Instagram stories editor’s note] is true.” But for the singer, Inès Reg “omits” however “the whole part of the story where she slipped up. And which justifies [s]her handrail”. If the interpreter of You will find speaks today, it is also to defend himself. “[Inès Reg] implies that I am racist and I cannot let that go,” she justifies, denouncing “an extremely serious accusation, which leads to incitement to violence”. In reaction to Natasha St-Pier’s handrail, the comedian called out the singer on Instagram on Sunday evening: “The only reason you were afraid is because [the members who make up my team] are Blacks and Arabs?”
Words that particularly move Natasha St-Pier. The latter claims to now be afraid not only of the comedian and those around him, but also “of those who, believing his stories, would want to harm [him]. For her, this accusation of racism is “the hardest to bear”. “It’s so embarrassing to justify something that’s the opposite of who I am,” she confides to Le Parisien. In the columns of the daily, however, she admits that “at no time” did Inès Reg threaten her with death. On the other hand, “Anthony Colette [her dancer in the show, editor’s note.] was very strongly threatened. And she asked someone close to her to send us a message to go ‘fuck our dead'”, reports Natasha St-Pier, who acknowledges, “For me, I was in danger.”
Asked about the support of the other candidates, Natasha St-Pier assures “everyone has experienced Inès’ mood swings”. And points out: “If they didn’t applaud her [during a show], it’s to show that they didn’t agree with the way I was treated.” What about the rest of the DALS adventure? “I hope that by speaking out, it will calm things down,” confides the Canadian singer, who wishes to be able to continue the adventure.