Oprah and Caroline Darian: First Us Interview Since Her Father Dominique Pelicot’s Shocking Trial

The Oprah Podcast

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4.6 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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BUY THE BOOK! “I’ll Never Call him Dad Again” by Caroline Darian, published by Sourcebooks, is available March 18th wherever books are sold. https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Never-Call-Him-Again/dp/1464257957?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER https://books.apple.com/us/book/ill-never-call-him-dad-again/id6740407561 In a story that made international headlines, French grandmother Gisèle Pelicot was drugged and raped by her husband Dominique Pelicot and more than 70 men he invited to rape her while she remained unconscious. In this episode of The Oprah Podcast, Gisèle’s daughter Caroline Darian reveals how her father’s secret life has devastated their family and destroyed the life they knew. During this candid conversation, Caroline shares how they found out about her father’s crimes, how he recruited men to rape her mother, and the lengths he took to keep his perversion a secret from everyone. She will also talk about the shock of discovering photos of herself unconscious in his collection, how he raped her mom in Caroline’s home and how she and her mother found the strength to face her father and the dozens of accused men during the trial. Minnesotan Jenny Teeson - a mom of two who found video of her ex-husband drugging and raping her - also joins the conversation. Jenny will explain why most of the charges against her ex-husband were dropped despite overwhelming video and photographic evidence. For more information on Caroline Darian’s movement, “Don’t Put Me Under: Stop Chemical Submission” please go to her website. https://mendorspas.org/ If you are a victim of sexual assault, please call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-467. More information can be found at the website below. https://rainn.org/resources Follow Oprah Winfrey on Social: https://www.instagram.com/oprah/ https://www.facebook.com/oprahwinfrey/ Listen to the full podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0tEVrfNp92a7lbjDe6GMLI https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oprah-podcast/id1782960381 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you all for joining me on the Oprah podcast for this special episode.
0:06.3	Before we start, it's important for those of you listening or watching to know that this conversation is around sexual assault, and it may be very challenging to hear.
0:19.0	And most importantly, this is absolutely not an appropriate conversation
0:23.7	for young children. So today, I'm speaking with Caroline Daryon, who traveled here to California from
0:31.9	her home just outside of Paris. And this is her first American interview.
0:38.6	In 2020, 67-year-old Dominique Pelicole reportedly a devoted grandfather, father and husband,
0:46.8	was arrested near where he lived in the south of France.
0:50.0	He was caught filming up women's skirts at a supermarket.
0:53.3	He was released while awaiting charges.
0:56.0	Police seized Dominique's two phones, a camera and a video recorder, plus several other devices
1:02.6	from the home he shared with Giselle, his wife of nearly 50 years.
1:07.9	Dominique Pellico confessed to his wife, Giselle, about that supermarket incident, but
1:12.6	nothing could prepare her for what was to come. Giselle and Dominique were then summoned to the local
1:18.0	police station. She assumed to discuss her husband's case. Instead, police privately informed
1:24.1	Giselle that for nearly a decade her husband had been recording her on his devices
1:29.6	and drugging and raping her. During that time, Dominique had also invited more than 70 local men,
1:37.4	strangers he recruited from chat rooms on the internet to rape his wife as she lay unconscious.
1:43.7	He stood by and filmed it all. In total, police
1:46.9	discovered more than 20,000 photos and videos on Dominique's devices in a folder labeled
1:53.4	abuse. After Giselle met with police, she called her three grown children, Caroline, David,
1:59.8	and Florian, to tell them the shocking
2:02.2	truth about the father they thought they knew.
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