French actress Anouk Grinberg assures in an interview with Elle published on Thursday that “everyone who has worked with Depardieu knows that he attacks women”.
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The 60-year-old actress, who denounces a “deafening silence” in the cinema industry, assures that “everyone who has worked with Depardieu knows that he attacks women” and also claims that the actor “does that” during the film to have seen 1990s.
Anouk Grinberg, former partner of the director Bertrand Blier and close to Gérard Depardieu, intends to support the actress Charlotte Arnould, whom she knows well and who denounced two rapes in the star’s Paris home at the end of August 2018. Depardieu was charged with “rape” and “sexual assault” in 2020 as part of this investigation.
He is also questioned by the statements of 13 women accusing him of sexual violence, published in April by the information site Mediapart. At the time of these revelations, the Paris public prosecutor’s office said it had “not received any new complaints to date.”
At the beginning of October, Gérard Depardieu responded by publishing an open letter in which he denied the facts accused of him, denounced a “lynching” staged by the “media court” and claimed that he was “neither a rapist nor a predator”. “I have never abused a woman,” he wrote.
“When he says (…) that he has never attacked a woman, I have seen him do it all the time,” answers Anouk Grinberg in Elle about the 1990s, when she was Bertrand Blier’s partner, and about the filming with Depardieu of “Merci la vie”, released in 1991.
“I saw him jokingly putting his hands on women’s buttocks, touching their breasts and their genitals. “I heard him talking about their pussies all day, how much he wanted to suck them all day, and no one ever said anything,” she accuses.
“I was not spared from his verbal attacks,” specifies Anouk Grinberg, who explains: “Blier and he incited each other to humiliate women and laugh about it.” The team showed loyalty and also laughed to make the kings happy close. At that moment in my life I had no choice but to laugh with the pack to (…) have a little place,” she explains.
Anouk Grinberg calls for breaking the silence to help Charlotte Arnould, the actress who filed the complaint: “Charlotte is alone in front of everyone, that’s why we have to move forward as a group, that’s why I’m coming out of the woods” .