Women don’t count for plums. Guest of the program “C l’hebdo” on Saturday on France 5, Lio reacted to the Gérard Depardieu affair, which has divided the world of cinema since the broadcast of the issue of “Complément d’investigation” devoted to the actor. The report denounces crude and inappropriate behavior (to put it mildly) on his part towards women.
“That’s all we can do on set for years with the complicity of an entire community that is at stake today. These are unacceptable behaviors that destroy. I was the victim, I’m not the only one,” proclaims the singer of the hit Banana split.
“The presumption of innocence exists and will always exist, but women’s voices must be heard and we still don’t want to hear them!,” she laments. There are lists circulating in the industry, so everyone knows about sexual predators. Some still practice. […] I regret that this old world still has so much power. »
“A suffering that destroys”
Gérard Depardieu was indicted for rape in 2020 following a complaint from actress Charlotte Arnould. While President Emmanuel Macron pointed to “a manhunt”, Lio insisted on the suffering of women who denounce this behavior.
“It is a suffering which destroys,” insists the artist, “recently seen in Domestic scenes and in the movies Stars 80. Listen to these women who still managed to survive. It’s not nothing, it’s not a detail! When you are in a microcosm where you are psychologically tortured, where you are psychologically mistreated, it destroys! »
“No one talked about a book burning, no one talked about erasing Gérard Depardieu,” she continues. He hurt one of my friends a lot. [Charlotte Arnould]. When she spoke, all the media supported her, it was already a desire to defend a profession. There is an in-between. I’m incredibly lucky, this job never wanted me and I’m not part of it. »