It is as a true fan that Matthieu Delormeau welcomed on the set of TPMP People this Saturday April 22, 2023 three women who marked his childhood: the actresses Grace de Capitani and Fiona Gélin as well as the host Sophie Darel. Addressing all sorts of questions with them, the debate nevertheless quickly turned to the relationship that these three stars of the 1980s had with men of power. In short, the host wanted to know what the era before “#Me Too” could have been in the show business professions. And Fiona Gélin, famous actress on the boards as in the cinema, told her sad misadventure with a producer, still alive and whose name she preferred to keep silent, who clearly wanted to have a relationship with her under pain of putting an end to his film career… “He put his hand on my thigh and he said ‘So, are we sleeping?’, I said ‘It’s not possible’, so he pulled me by the hair and kicked me out the door. …” she declares under the indignation of the chroniclers. And to assert: “He was extremely important, he told me ‘you won’t make movies anymore’ and it’s true that I struggled…”.
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“You don’t know what you missed: the deal of the century!”
For her part, Sophie Darel, who has long been Guy Lux’s television sidekick, returned to an episode that had traumatized her when, as a beginner, she accompanied singer Claude François. The man who didn’t like being resisted had indeed been most inelegant with her. She had also confided in October 2021 in the columns of Evening Mag on the occasion of a shocking documentary “Claude François: the unmentionable secrets” broadcast at the same time on RMC Story. “Clo-clo can’t stand being refused. He terrorizes his team. With the girls, he is the one who decides. He is jealous, flashes on virginity… ”, she hints in the film. Then, to clarify his remarks more recently in Luxury Moment : “One day he said to me, I was quite a minx: I have a great thing in my room that purifies the air. He said to me: Come and see, you’ve never seen that in a bedroom. So I go there with his secretary and when he arrives he shows me the device that purifies and there he throws me on the bed, jumps on me. But downright. It didn’t happen”, she revealed on the set of L’instant de Luxe. And the interpreter of As per usual to tell her every time he saw her:“You don’t know what you missed: the deal of the century!” .But there was no rape reassures the former presenter while being aware that this story lived and told today takes on a completely different echo. Fortunately, times have changed…
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