(Paris) 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”.
Published at 9:51 am.
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 during the film the actor “does that “ to see 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.”
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Gerard Depardieu
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 […] “I saw the whole time that he never attacked a woman,” answers Anouk Grinberg in “Elle” about the 1990s, when she was Bertrand Blier’s companion, and the filming of “Merci la vie” with Depardieu “, which were published 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 this point in my life, I had no choice but to laugh with the pack […] “You have a little space,” 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” .