The news struck like a bomb. According to information from Point, Richard Berry accused by his eldest daughter, Coline Hiegel Berry, of incest. According to the young woman, the 70-year-old comedian allegedly abused her as a minor. So she has "filed a complaint with the public prosecutor of Paris " with the support of his mother Catherine Hiegel who told our colleagues: "I am at my daughter's side". If, for the moment, the Paris prosecutor's office has not spoken, "the Minors Protection Brigade (BPM) is seized and the complainant should be heard in the coming days, even if the facts appear to be prescribed ". His testimony echoes the news. A few weeks before his complaint, Coline Hiegel Berry congratulated Camille Kouchner on the release of her book La familia grande. The lawyer and author accuses her former stepfather, Olivier Duhamel, of having abused her twin brother for several years. "It is necessary to talk about it ! Well done Camille Kouchner ", Coline wrote on January 7 in the caption of the book, shared on her Instagram account. Two weeks later, she was among the personalities who posted a photo of them younger on the social network to denounce the Billon amendment. "At 13, I didn't have a head to agree. No to the Billon amendment", she captioned.
For his part, Richard Berry denounces a lie. Upon discovering these accusations, the French actor was quick to react. In his Instagram stories of Tuesday, February 2, 2021, he started: "I am speaking to you today because I am facing one of the most painful situations that are for a man, and for a father. Forty-five years ago my daughter Coline was born. two years, her mother and I separated under very conflictual conditions ". Before continuing: "I took care of Coline on Sundays, at my parents first, then on weekends with my partner, at the time Jeane Manson, and her daughter of the same age. I was a father too young, too absent, but loving, and respectful of my daughter. Seven years ago, when I announced to my family that my wife and I were expecting a child, Coline, herself pregnant, reacted with extreme violence, then, in an email sent to my wife, she for the first time alluded to the fact that she had been 'abused' ".
Richard Berry denies "without ambiguity" these accusations "filthy"
A story that has "evolved over time" before being "denied, renewed and enriched by it at the option of the interlocutors, or the news", according to the companion of Pascale Louange. Explaining having "tried to talk to him" while "years" in order to "put an end to her lies, understand what she needed, without success", he would have gone so far as to open "to psychiatrists, to my family, to my friends". "After the publication of Camille Kouchner's testimony, my daughter reworked her story. She first contacted reporters in early January, then filed a complaint. As soon as I learned that this judicial process had been initiated, I immediately wrote to the Paris prosecutor to ask him, despite the prescription, that a thorough investigation be carried out so that the truth is definitively established ", he announced.
So Richard Berry denies "without ambiguity" these accusations "filthy". "I have never had inappropriate or incestuous relations with Coline or with any of my children. These allegations are false. Even repeated a hundred times, by way of the press or by any other means, they are nothing more than a lie", he said. A message the actor concluded: "Why is my daughter accusing me of things I didn't do? Why is she following this destructive madness to the end? I would like to understand his suffering. I was there perhaps too little, or too late. I don't know if that can explain anything. Beyond the immense pain and the shock that I feel, it is now up to justice to establish the facts ".
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