Gisele Pelicot – refusing the misery label

 Gisele Pelicot, an ordinary housewife, drugged by her husband and raped by an estimated 72 men over a decade, became ‘a figure of astonishing power’ when she insisted on an open trial and has now written an inspiring memoir A Hymn to Life. After her husband was arrested for upskirting, the police having seized his computer found evidence of the assaults on her. She said when faced with the evidence she felt she’d “been struck head-on by a high-speed train”. Wh