It is a painful but apparently necessary revelation that Emmanuelle Béart made. The French actress publicly recounts having been a victim of incest between the ages of 10 and 14, in a documentary that she co-directed and which will be broadcast on M6 on September 24 at 11:10 p.m.
“His attacker was not Guy Béart”, his singer father who died in 2015, said co-director Anastasia Mikova on Tuesday during the presentation of the documentary to the press at the premises of M6. The latter indicated that she had made this clarification at the request of the 60-year-old actress, who was not herself present for “family reasons”. Emmanuelle Béart “does not wish” to reveal the identity of her attacker, because this is not “the approach” of the film, continued her co-director and friend.
“You will start again for four years”
In this documentary titled A silence so loud, the two women collect the words of four other victims of incest, and Emmanuelle Béart echoes elements of her own story. “If my father, my mother, my school, my friends don’t see anything, it’s because everything can start over, and you’ll start over for four years”, she says in voiceover, addressing the person who told her. assaulted. According to her, it was her grandmother who “saved [sa] skin “.
“I didn’t want to speak, I wanted to create a space for others to speak. Faced with them, their sincerity, their courage, I said to myself that I too had to speak, ”explained the actress in a video message projected to the press before the film. “It’s a project I’ve had in my head since I was 19,” added the one who was revealed by the film Manon of the sources in 1986.
160,000 child victims each year
The documentary “is not a film about victims, but about beings who have been victims and who are fighting,” she also said in an interview with the magazine She published on Tuesday. The witnesses are Norma, raped by her grandfather in her childhood, Pascale, who concealed until her fifties the abuse inflicted by her father, Sarah, whose ex-companion abused their granddaughter between 4 and 8 years old, and Joachim, who accuses his parents of incest, which they deny.
According to the Ciivise (Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence against Children), 160,000 children are victims of sexual violence each year in France and 5.5 million adults were victims in their childhood, most often within of their family. A situation that requires a “political and societal response”, pleaded Emmanuelle Béart. According to M6, the documentary will be screened on September 19 at the State Secretariat for Children.