“I looked at this man as a father figure”, declares Judith Godrèche about Benoît Jacquot whom she accuses of sexual violence

“I looked at this man as a father figure, as the authority on set”, actress Judith Godrèche told France Inter on Thursday February 8 about Benoît Jacquot, against whom she filed a complaint on Tuesday February 6 for rape of a minor. The Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday February 7 the opening of a preliminary investigation.

The relationship between the actress and the filmmaker 25 years her senior began when she was 14 years old. Now aged 51, Judith Godrèche tries to remember a “time when [elle a] looked at this man and said to himself that[elle] wanted to go out with him, he was handsome”but she says she doesn’t have it “Never” feeling. “I was never attracted to Benoît Jacquot but I found myself with him”, she insists. The actress explains that she “found in his bed, to be his wife, his little wife, his child-wife”.