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This Friday, February 16, 2024, Flavie Flament was invited to react to the controversial comments made by Anny Duperey on RTL a week earlier. The heroine of the series Une famille formidable, who starred with Gérard Depardieu in numerous films, had ulcerated “the witch hunt” which targeted filmmakers accused of sexual assault and/or violence, and thus took the delicate and little measured defense of Benoît Jacquot, Jacques Doillon, and even Roman Polanski, arguing that the speeches “fifty or sixty years later” were for she inaudible. A speech which caused a great stir, and which led the septuagenarian actress to justify it in a press release, without however apologizing for it.
In DailyFlavie Flament, who is one of the first French celebrities to have publicly denounced her rapist, in the person of the photographer David Hamilton, said to himself “stunned” by the comments made by Anny Dupereybut did not want to put him on trial: “I pity her for thinking like that.” she simply declared. Evoking the bond she forged with Judith Godrèche, Flavie Flament reveals this feeling of “connection” which had inhabited them both when they met for the first time, as if their suffering had spoken to each other: “At the time, I didn’t know her, there was something that touched me in a singular way about Judith as if there was a sort of connection between people who suffered from the same things, and yet we had spoken of nothing. Something happened, I remember being touched by his extreme sensitivitythe way she spoke to me, that veiled look in her eyes.”. Listening to the denunciations made by Judith Godrèche, very quickly joined by Anna Mouglalis and Isild le Besco, Flavie Flament explains “not (to have) been surprised”.
She blames David Hamilton for not confronting his crimes
In this same interview, Flavie Flament returned with emotion about the suicide of her rapist
, photographer David Hamilton. A few weeks following his speech, in an autobiographical book called Consolation, the Briton preferred to end his life rather than face his victim and the justice system. On this subject, the ex-wife of Benjamin Castaldi only remembers “anger” and has no guilt: “I felt immense anger. He wasn’t even able to face things”regrets the former star host of TF1. Her book had enormous repercussions on her life, since Flavie Flament admitted to having lost all contact with her entire family: “I do not have no contact with my mother for over eight yearsnor with all of what one might consider my family, apart from my father’s sister, whom I love deeply.”