Since the broadcast of Further investigation dedicated to his person on December 7, 2023, Gérard Depardieu
hit the headlines. Indicted on December 16, 2020 for rape and sexual assault after a complaint from actress Charlotte Arnould for facts which allegedly took place at the end of August 2018, the 74-year-old actor saw his image be even more tarnished. In the report broadcast on France 2we discover the actor, during his trip to North Korea in 2018, having numerous verbal slips towards women and even sexualizing an 11-year-old girl.
Since then, his statue at the Grévin museum has been removed and some are also calling for his Legion of Honor to be removed. However, some especially expect the sacred monster of French cinema to explain itself in the images broadcast. The journalist of TF1, Audrey Crespo-Marafor example sent him an invitation to receive him in an issue of Seven to eight as she said
At Buzz TV from Figaro
this Tuesday, December 19.
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Audrey Crespo-Mara no response yet
“I asked, imagine, but he doesn’t want to talk. Afterwards, indeed, he’s a personality that we want to receive at these moments”she told our colleagues before they asked her what questions she would like to ask the actor.
“In fact, these are the facts that we want to oppose to him”then clarified Thierry Ardisson’s partner before continuing: “I saw Complément d’investigation, which is as always very well done, then there is a cabal against him. Of course, I was shocked by his comments, his attitude, and the testimonies of the women who told him accused of sexual assault are still disturbing. But there is an indictment. And when there is ‘only’ an indictment, there is a presumption of innocence. So removing his statue from the Grévin museum, banning its films on France Télévisions when there is no conviction, on a legal level… that poses a problem to me”. Audrey Crespo-Mara recognizes that, since the broadcast of Further investigationthere have been “a burst of emotion” following the remarks “very shocking” of the actor who led to a “runaway” media.
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