2023-10-11 16:07:24
Sexual violence fileFrench actress Anouk Grinberg responds to Gérard Depardieu’s open letter published at the beginning of October, in which he denies the facts of which he is accused. And adds her testimony to those of 16 other women, denouncing the “deafening silence” in the cinema industry.
“Everyone who worked with Depardieu knows that he attacks women.” In an interview to be published Thursday, October 12, given to the women’s magazine Elle, French actress Anouk Grinberg says: “I saw him put his hands on women’s buttocks, touch their breasts, their genitals while joking . I heard him talk all day about their “pussy”, how he would like to “suck them” all day and no one ever said anything.” She denounces a “deafening silence” from the cinema industry.
The 60-year-old actress, former companion of Bertrand Blier – close to Gérard Depardieu – was brought to work with the French cinema giant. The latter, denounced at the end of August 2018 by actress Charlotte Arnould, was indicted in 2020 for “rape” and “sexual assault” in this investigation. Thirteen other women also accused him of sexual violence, in testimonies published in April by Mediapart, followed by three others in July. At the beginning of October, Depardieu responded by publishing an open letter denying the facts of which he is accused, denouncing a “lynching” orchestrated by the “media court” and ensuring that he was “neither a rapist nor a predator”. “Never, ever have I abused a woman,” he wrote.
“When he says […] that he never attacked a woman, I saw him do it all this time,” replies Anouk Grinberg, about the 1990s, when she was Blier’s partner, and the filming with Depardieu from Merci la vie, released in 1991. “I was not spared by his verbal attacks,” specifies the actress, who explains that “Blier and he excited each other to humiliate women and laugh about it. The team showed allegiance and also laughed to please the kings. At that point in my life, I had no choice but to laugh with the pack to […] have a little space,” she explains.
With this new testimony, Anouk Grinberg intends to support Charlotte Arnould, and calls for breaking the silence to help the young woman: “Charlotte is alone in front of everyone, that’s why we have to move forward as a group, it’s why am I coming out of the woods?
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