Oops. Actress Clémentine Célarié sent a text to AFP on Tuesday to admit that she was “mistaken” in signing the column in support of Gérard Depardieu. “I absolutely want to dissociate myself from this platform,” she wrote. “I am impulsive, I got carried away and I regret it painfully. I was wrong. I apologize to those I may have hurt, because I am with them with all my heart,” she adds.
The actress is one of the sixty signatories of a column from the pro-Depardieu camp calling for “not to erase” the icon of French cinema, published on Christmas Day in Le Figaro. The 75-year-old actor is the target of three complaints for sexual assault or rape – which he denies – and is widely criticized for the broadcast, at the beginning of December, of images in which he multiplies misogynistic and insulting remarks towards women.
Like Carole Bouquet, Gérard Darmon and Pierre Richard
Depardieu has been indicted for rape since 2020, following a complaint from actress Charlotte Arnould. Since then, this platform has given rise to several “counter-opinions”. Several personalities from the world of culture who initially signed it also subsequently distanced themselves, such as Nadine Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Gérard Darmon, Yvan Attal, Charles Berling, Jacques Weber and even Pierre Richard.
“I have always wanted peace and love (…) My thirst for freedom and justice has always dictated to me that a person must be judged before being condemned,” says Clémentine Célarié, who will be on the boards from January 18 in “I am the executioner’s mother”, in Paris.