The world of French cinema has been shaking since the start of the affair. While he was playing The pleadings by Matthieu Aron on the stage of the Théâtre Libre, Richard Berry found himself at the heart of terrible accusations. In January 2021, his daughter Coline filed a complaint with the Paris prosecutor’s office against the actor and his former wife Jeane Manson for incest, rape, sexual assault and corruption of a minor. If he has always firmly denied the facts, the actor was not supported by all members of his family, aware of what was going on since 2014.
I’m not against Richard, I’m with Coline
Marilou Berry, a proud feminist activist, has always been on the side of her cousin. “Coline is fine, she assures today in the columns of the magazine Paris Match. The investigation does not advance, because justice is slow. “The end of year celebrations are approaching but they risk being a bit different for the Berry clan, formerly linked by Philippe, the husband from whom Josiane Balasko separated in 1999.”I’m not against Richard, I’m with Coline, explains the heroine of the series I promise you. If Coline decides to forgive her father, I will support her. But I will not go back to the family Christmas dinner. It wouldn’t make sense to go to a feminist demo and not publicly support my cousin. It was part of my upbringing to see my parents mobilize against injustices, and not just speak out against them. Sexual violence, poverty, these are our common causes with my mother. “
I do not rejoice in the misfortune of my uncle
If Josiane Balasko did not wish to speak in the pages of Paris Match, the magazine specifies that it adopts the “same attitude“than her daughter. As for Marilou Berry, she always assured that she believed her cousin. She had even given her support to the activists of the organization. L’Amazone Paname, including Marguerite Stern, who had been arrested for pasting messages in favor of Coline Berry-Rojtman on the walls of Paris – Richard Berry had also filed a complaint for moral harassment. “What good would it be for me to yell at Place de la République with #NousToutes if I’m not able to clean my own family?, specified Marilou Berry, in Release, last February. I am not looking forward to my uncle’s misfortune.. “
Richard Berry and Jeane Manson remain presumed innocent of the facts with which they are accused until the final judgment of this case.