A burst of white text on a black background. In an Instagram story, Judith Godrèche reacted to the interview with Benoît Jacquot carried out in 2011 by Gérard Miller and excerpts of which have just been published on social networks. The director speaks at length about the relationship he had with the actress when the latter was 14 years old. He was then 40. “It was clearly a transgression. If only with regard to the law, as it is said, we do not have the right in principle I believe. A woman like her, this Judith who was in fact 15 years old, and I was 40, in principle I had no right. But she didn’t give a damn about that. It excited her a lot, I would say. »
On these matters, Judith Godrèche’s response could not be clearer. Screenshot in support of Gérard Miller’s documentary, she responds to BenoÎt Jacquot: “No, no, NO. No, Benoît Jacquot. A girl like her was 14 years old. And no – no. It didn’t excite him. » Arte.tv has just broadcast its series Icon of the French Cinema, in which Judith Godrèche tells her fictional mother: “Why did you let me go with a 40-year-old man? »
“A sort of cover for morals of this type”
THE Instagram account by Judith Godrèche being in private, it was Internet users who relayed her reaction by taking screenshots. “I have to do it for our daughters, our little sisters. And you who are writing to me to tell me that this story “romanticized” by the media at the time, encouraged you to let yourself be taken by an adult who abused his control. » She then gives the name “Benoît Jacquot” in another post and adds: “he still manipulates those who could associate their name with mine” and “threatens to take me to court for defamation”.
In the rest of the extract from the interview with the director conducted by Gérard Miller, Benoît Jacquot also says: “In a certain way, making cinema is a kind of cover for morals of this type. […] At the same time in Landerneau cinematography, we can feel a certain esteem, a certain admiration for what others would undoubtedly also like to practice, there is that too which is not unpleasant. »
Words which resonate after those of Lio invited to speak on the Depardieu affair in the program “C l’hebdo”. “Everyone knows the sexual predators who are in the business. »