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For nearly thirty years, Isabelle Demongeot remained silent. These things aren’t spoken about. You endure them, then you suppress them. You act as if "it" never happened. For her family, her friends, her fans—for all those who admired her as the young tennis prodigy destined for a glorious future—Isabelle from Saint-Tropez hid what she had been suffering since the age of thirteen, in the shadows of the locker rooms.

But the body does not forget. In a doctor’s office, on the brink of turning forty, the former No. 2 French women’s tennis player is suddenly confronted by her past. Nine years of sexual abuse. A shattered career. A ruined life. How could she have accepted it? How did no one notice? Was she really the only one?

Born from an irrepressible need to reveal her secret in order to heal, Stolen Service is not only the harrowing testimony of a woman investigating the psychological conditioning that forced her into silence. It is also a cry of warning from a former elite athlete to a society blinded by its obsession with medals: do not let your children be destroyed.