“Everyone who worked with Depardieu knows that he attacks women”says actress Anouk Grinberg, denouncing a “deafening silence” from the world of cinema in a magazine interview She to be published Thursday October 11. The 60-year-old actress, former companion of Bertrand Blier, close to Gérard Depardieu, intends to support the actress Charlotte Arnould, whom she knows well and who denounced two rapes at the star’s Parisian home at the end of August 2018. Mr. Depardieu was indicted in 2020 for rape and sexual assault in this investigation.
” When he says (…) that he never attacked a woman, I saw him do it all this time”declares Anouk Grinberg in Sheabout the 1990s, when she was Blier’s companion, and during the filming with Gérard Depardieu of thank you lifereleased in 1991.
“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 accuses.
“The team showed allegiance, laughed too”
“I was not spared by his verbal attacks”specifies Anouk Grinberg, who explains that “He and Blier incited 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 place », she justifies. Anouk Grinberg calls for breaking the silence to help Charlotte Arnould, the actress who filed the complaint: “Charlotte is alone against everyone, that’s why we have to move forward as a group, that’s why I’m coming out of the woods. »
Gérard Depardieu is also implicated by the testimonies of thirteen women accusing him of sexual violence, published in April by Mediapart. The Paris prosecutor’s office announced at the time of these revelations that it had not “received no new complaints to date”. In early October, Mr. Depardieu responded by writing an open letter published by Le Figaro denying the facts of which he is accused, denouncing a “lynching” orchestrated by the “media court” and ensuring to be “neither rapist nor predator”. “Never, ever, have I abused a woman”he wrote.