Overview

• Caroline Darian linked pornography websites to her mother’s decade of drug-facilitated abuse by Dominique Pelicot and dozens of other men.
• Darian revealed she is estranged from her mother after Gisèle Pelicot declined to recognise her daughter’s own alleged chemical submission.
• At the festival, Darian promoted her memoir I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again and launched the “Don’t Put Me Under: Stop Chemical Submission” campaign.
• Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2024 and 51 men were convicted in the case, with 17 now appealing their sentences.
• Darian called on men to challenge misogynistic behaviour and urged tighter regulation of online pornography as part of broader consent reforms.