In 2001 she recorded an interview for the French TV show Tout le Monde en Parle in which she tearfully claimed she had been sexually assaulted repeatedly from childhood by modeling executives, celebrities, and a member of a European royal family; the segment was deemed too legally risky and never aired.

Reports and later social-media retellings say she accused figures connected to Elite Model Management, including European boss Gérald Marie, of drugging and assaulting her and coercing models into sex and drugs as part of systemic exploitation. Gérald Marie, a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein, later killed himself in prison while awaiting trial for the sexual assaults.

She was punished for speaking out—losing her career, being framed as “crazy,” and placed in a psychiatric ward, with one of the men she accused reportedly helping pay for her clinic stay. These narratives emphasize that her career never recovered and that she survived a later drug overdose.