Published26. March 2024, 10:56
“Dancing with the stars”: Natacha St-Pier to Inès Reg: “Let’s start from scratch and go dancing”
The Canadian singer, in turn, gives her version of the altercation with Inès Reg and hopes that things will calm down.
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Laurent Flückiger
Natasha St-Pier explains that she removed a handrail because Inès and her team “intimidated” her.
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She had promised her version, she gave it online Monday evening. Natasha St-Pier returned to her altercation with Inès Reg which has been exciting (or not) since last Thursday.
Reminder of the facts: the tone rose during rehearsals for the show “Dancing with the Stars” at the end of January. Inès Reg, 31, is accused of having made death threats, while Natacha St-Pier, 43, was suspended for three days and filed a fine.
During the night from Sunday to Monday, the French comedian spoke at length on social networks. She explained that she was calm and that it was the Canadian singer who insulted her. She also affirmed that there were no death threats. A version “not told accurately, nor in full” according to Natasha St-Pier.
In a video on Instagram Monday evening, Natasha St-Pier says that she went to ask Inès Reg and her dance partner, Christophe Licata, to lower the volume of the music. What was done. Later, Inès Reg came in turn to the room where the Canadian and Anthony Colette were rehearsing. With a camera operator and a journalist. “I have the impression that she is in a character,” says Natasha St-Pier. What follows, according to his version, is a ping-pong of valves and spades.
“In an impressive fury”
The singer also begins to act, she enters “a character the opposite of her personality”. She then says she remembers a clash that there had been between Inès Reg and Valérie Trierweiler on the set of “Pékin Express” in 2022 and says to the comedian “now, little slut, get out”, while accompanying her and giving him a kiss on the hand. “I guess we just had a funny sequence.”
Which would not have been taken in the same way to the face. Chrisophe Licata would have declared that he does not condone insults and Natasha St-Pier would have gone to look for Inès to “pseudo-apologize” and tell her: “But Inès you cannot imagine that I was serious, that I think That.” Angry, Inès Reg reportedly retorted: “I hope you don’t think so.”
In Natasha St-Pier’s version, the comedian is “in an impressive fury, she shouts, insults us.” Several people are present, but the scene is not filmed. Inès Reg insults Anthony Colette by telling him that she was going to “fuck him, fuck him, that it’s not over”. “I am in shock at so much violence, she will even say in front of another dancer that it is not going to stop there and that he can “fuck his dead”, I burst into tears, I am sad to having hurt, I’m afraid, I’m trembling,” describes the Canadian singer.
Handrail
The day after the clash, production asked Natasha St-Pier to write an apology message. What she does “with sincerity”. She tries to contact Inès Reg, who does not answer her. It is she who proposes that several sanctions be imposed. Production finally sent Natasha St-Pier a formal notice and laid her off for three days.
She and Anthony Colette, “who also felt threatened,” decided to remove a handrail. The two women finally meet again on March 21 and Natasha St-Pier explains why she filed a handrail: because she and her team “intimidated” her. Response from Inès Reg, still according to the Canadian: “Ah yes I see, we are black and Arab, that’s what scares you, it’s called racism, Natasha”. The singer contests.
Last Thursday, the two candidates filmed themselves dancing together, as if everything was fine. The Canadian says she did it “thinking of calming things down”. Then, Friday’s live broadcast went off without a hitch. For her, “it’s settled.”
“I was extremely hurt”
Until she discovered the testimony of Inès Reg published during the night from Sunday to Monday. “This morning, I saw her stories, I was extremely hurt, shocked, because she claims to be a victim while omitting a whole part of the story,” confides the singer. She deplores “a total incomprehension”.
Concluding her story, Natasha St-Pier hopes that “everything calms down” for the good of the show and that she and Inès Reg will be able to see each other, talk to each other and say to each other: “Let’s start from scratch and go dancing. »
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