Gisèle Pelicot spoke of her ''very difficult ordeal'' after 51 men were convicted Thursday in the drugging-and-rape trial that riveted France and turned her into an icon, expressing support for other victims whose cases don't get such attention and ''whose stories remain untold.

Pelicot, who waived her right to anonymity, says she never regretted making the trial public "so society could see what was happening".