Yesterday an unbelievable story broke in Germany.
These two are Collien Fernandes (44, TV presenter and actress) and Christian Ulmen (50, actor, comedian, director and TV producer).
They just got divorced after a 15 year marriage that was completely scandal-free and unproblematic. The breakup and divorce was uneventful for the public. They have a 14-year-old daughter. Both are popular, but he is one of the most popular funny guys, known for his boundary pushing cringe humor.
Collien has also developed into somewhat of an activist against deep fake porn, because there are many deep fake porn clips with her face circulating and fake social media profiles acting as her, sexually chatting with men and distributing the fake porn.
Yesterday Collien went public with the whole story in a thoroughly researched article in Der Spiegel, a very reputable magazine.
On Christmas Day 2024, after having filed a police report against unknown, her husband Christian Ulmen sat her down and told her, he is behind the fake profiles and that he distributed the fake porn of her.
According to her he panicked because of the police report and admitted it, hoping she would cancel the report, because it was him and not some stranger.
She said on her social media yesterday that he told her he did it as a means of control, because she's his wife and he can control who he offers her to sexually. The story is headlined "You raped me virtually".
He himself apparently contacted a lawyer after that fateful day saying he messed up and developed a fetish that controlled him.
He contacted hundreds of men through the fake profiles and around 30 stuck around to engage in a full blown affair with "her". It went as far as telephone sex where Christian Ulmen used an AI tool to fake is wife's voice. The people he targeted were strangers and people they had professional contact to. Like a director who engaged in it and eventually led to her knowing about the profiles in the first place, because he thought they had a thing when they saw each other and she didn't.
This apparently went on for 10 years.
She has since filed a police report in Spain, where they both live and investigations are running.
It's the digital version of Gisèle Pelicot.
I added screenshots of her most recent social media post. Please use a translator to read it. This is the full article in German (TW: Domestic violence).
by knightriderin
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I’m so fucking shaken up by this since yesterday..
And again it’s a man who took great care in presenting himself as this super feminist, only to act like the worst of the worst behind closed doors.
And what’s also wild is that NONE of the men who received those messages and videos from “Collien” ever questioned any of this. Especially when they were men who KNEW her personally?! Who worked in the same business as her?! None of them thought it was strange that “Collien” suddenly sent them porn on fucking LinkedIn?! Apparently only ONE of them ever thought of bringing this up to her in person. Scumbags altogether.
Collien is so fucking brave for making this public.
sincerely what the fuck
What the hell?
Someone posted about this yesterday in another thread. There are so many women out there coupled with men hate them. My OBGYN told me that his married patients tested positive for STDs far more frequently than his single patients. The marrieds all thought they were in monogamous marriages. He said the worst part of his job was watching pregnant women realize their husband was cheating.
Last night I watched a bad Lifetime movie based on a story I’d seen on another show about a husband who broke into the home of his estranged wife. He beat and raped her, left, came back and pretended to find her and save her.
These stories sound extreme but there are countless ones just like them all over the world.
Lundy Bancroft points out that the dynamics of abusive relationships are the same across cultures and socio economic lines. Studies in the US show that making 911 calls public discourages women in higher income neighborhoods from calling the police because they are embarrassed and don’t want their friends and neighbors to hear the calls.
Holee shit. Geezuz. Put his ass in jail. This is completely mental, a deep violation. Wow. Hard to even grasp.
10 years?!
That poor woman. I’m not sure what (if any) charges he will get but I hope it is all of them. He should be under the jail.