Gisele Pelicot explains why she wanted her husband's mass rape trial in France held in full public view

Gisele Pelicot, the woman at the center of the mass-rape trial that's shocked her own country of France and the world, told her husband in court on Wednesday that she still "did not understand why" he had drugged and raped her for nearly a decade, along with dozens of other men he invited into their home.

"My life has crumbled to nothing," she told the court in Avignon as her husband Dominique hung his head. "I always tried to lift you up. You reached the lowest depths of the human soul — but unfortunately, it was you who made that choice."

"I don't know how I'm going to rebuild myself, get over all this," she said Wednesday. "At almost 72 years old, I don't know if I have enough life to get back on my feet."