According to members of the audience, Mulder told the host of “Tout le Monde en Parle” (Everyone is Talking about It) Thierry Ardisson that various people, including top executives at her former agency Elite and Prince Albert of Monaco, had tried to rape her. Moreover, Mulder said that her own father had hypnotized her from the age of two and then raped her.

Mulder had apparently contacted the show herself, explaining that she had "revelations" about malpractice at Elite. According to witnesses, Ardisson suspended the taping of the program for a "crisis meeting" backstage. Shortly afterwards, security men from the TV station frisked all the members of the audience and even impounded a videotape of the incident shot by a spectator.

"I asked her some questions about the Elite affair, and she responded by taking off in what can only be described as a ‘paranoiac delirium,’" Ardisson told Le Monde in an interview. He also confirmed that France 2, one of the country’s most popular channels, had subsequently erased all recordings of the Mulder interview.

Ardisson, a muckraking journalist who founded the popular gossip weekly “Entrevue” (Interview), is known as the King of TV Confessions in France. He added that he found her remarks, "vague, not credible and more or less surreal."

Mulder is in "an extremely disturbed psychological state," and "needs to be helped," Ardisson said of the October 31 show.

The 33-year-old Mulder, who is a resident of tax-friendly Monaco, could not be reached for comment. However, according to spectators at the show, the supermodel insisted that she planned to sue her alleged aggressors.

A spokesperson for Elite in Paris said he knew nothing about Mulder’s allegations. "She has not been with our agency for four years," the spokesman said.

The TV incident has spawned intense discussions on French chat sites, with various "witnesses", i.e. spectators, recounting their versions of events on web sites.

One member of the audience, Emmanuel de Fournas, told French monthly Technikart, "Ardisson lost control of the program. He began yelling at his team. They even tried to impound spectators’ cameras. It was a weird mess."