(Paris) French actress Anouk Grinberg assures in an interview with Elle to be published on Thursday that “everyone who has worked with Depardieu knows that he attacks women”.
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”, also claiming to have seen the actor “do it” during the 1990s.
Former companion of director Bertrand Blier, close to Gérard Depardieu, Anouk Grinberg intends to support actress Charlotte Arnould, whom she knows well and who denounced two rapes at the star’s Parisian home at the end of August 2018. Depardieu was indicted in 2020 for “rape” and “sexual assault” in this investigation.
He is also questioned by the testimonies of 13 women accusing him of sexual violence, published in April by the Mediapart information site. The Paris prosecutor’s office indicated at the time of these revelations that it had “not received any new complaints to date”.
At the beginning of October, Gérard Depardieu responded by publishing an open letter denying the facts of which he is accused, denouncing a “lynching” orchestrated by the “media court” and claiming to be “neither rapist nor predator”. “Never, ever have I abused a woman,” he wrote.
“When he says […] that he has never attacked a woman, I saw him do it all this time,” replies Anouk Grinberg in Elle, about the 1990s, when she was the companion of Bertrand Blier, and of the filming with Depardieu of Merci la vie, released 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.
“I was not spared by his verbal attacks,” specifies Anouk Grinberg, who explains that “Blier and he 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 other choice than 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 a 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 “.
