MY LIFE WITH A MONSTER
SHE described it as a living hell, trapped in a nightmare with a man who tormented her every day, controlling and abusing her until she could take no more.
After 25 years of being beaten, pimped out and terrified for her life, she shot her husband in the back of the neck in front of two of her children – and then buried him with the kids’ help.
In the five years since Daniel Polette’s death, Valérie Bacot has become well known in France. She wrote a bestselling book, Tout le Monde Savait (“everyone knew”), about her trauma and has become a poster child for abused women.
But her
