The controversy continues to grow from week to week… Thursday December 7, 2023, France 2 broadcast an issue of Complément d’investigation devoted to Gérard Depardieu. In this one, the actor targeted by three rape complaints exclaimed, looking at a little girl on a horse: “If he ever gallops, she cums. She’s my girl, keep going!” If more than fifty personalities signed a platform in support of the actor, others denounced his behavior and rebelled.
For his part, David Brécourt has made his choice. Tuesday February 12, 2024, on the set of the show Chez Jordan, on C8, he declared: “This way of bashing Depardieu disgusts me. I don’t think this gentleman is a rapist, he is a gentleman who is extremely rude.”.
David Brécourt: “I don’t think he’s a rapist”
In complete transparency, the ex-star of Under the Sun declared: “I respect him because it’s my whole childhood, it’s my whole cinema, I love this guy, for me, he’s gargantuan (…) I think it’s a pigwho behaved very badly, but I don’t think he’s a rapist”.
So, Jordan de Luxe told him that these comments could annoy some people. “I don’t care, I don’t care… We don’t know, I’m not justice, there is a presumption of innocence and at the same time, it’s not my business to talk about that”he said, before adding: “Yes, the guy is rude, we know that. I loved this show, À plein dents, that he did on Arte, it was great. He’s a guy I met 2-3 times, I was able to talk with him a little”.
David Brécourt believes that feminism goes “very far”
Deploring the general “relentlessness” that certain celebrities can endure, the actor said: “It’s horrible! Then, when it’s not him, it’s another matter, we crush the person until they are crushed to the ground, it’s terrible when there is a presumption of innocence, when we don’t know. Perhaps he will be judged, and if he is judged, justice will do its job.”. Finally, David Brécourt added: “This feminism goes very, very far (…), it’s terrible. There are people who have done terrible things, I agree, but let’s let justice do its work. We know that Depardieu is like that, he’s a rude guy“.