A 72-year-old woman has taken the stand in France where her husband is on trial for enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her.
Gisele Pelicot told the court she was determined that making her case public should help other women and change society.
Dominique Pelicot, her husband, has admitted inviting dozens of strangers over nearly ten years to their house to rape her after he had drugged her.
Fifty other men also stand trial, accused of raping her.
Ms Pelicot, her voice often shaking with emotion, said that she was destroyed by what happened to her.
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She said how "unbelievably violent" it was for her that many of the accused in the trial, which started on 2 September, said they thought she agreed to the rapes or was faking sleeping.
"I've decided not to be ashamed, I've done nothing wrong," Ms Pelicot told the court in Avignon, southern France.
She said she had insisted the trial be held publicly, and not behind closed doors, as is often the case to protect rape victims, in the hope that it would help others.
"They (rapists) are the ones who must be ashamed," Ms Pelicot said, adding that having videos, filmed by her husband, of some of the rapes, shown during the trial, was "very difficult but necessary".
"I'm not expressing hatred or hate, but I am determined that things change in this society.
"It's not courage. It's determination to change things. This is not just my battle, but that of all rape victims," she said.
Most of the accused told the court that they have been manipulated by Dominique Pelicot, rejecting the blame on him.
Only a few have admitted to raping Ms Pelicot.
Some have apologised.
"I hear those apologies, but they are inaudible," she told the court. "By apologising, they are trying to excuse themselves."
Saying her husband's betrayal of her trust was beyond measure, Ms Pelicot said: "I'm a woman who's totally destroyed."
She said she thought he was the perfect husband, before adding: "My life has tumbled into nothingness".
