He had anticipated this publication, indicating on Friday that he had been informed by the two authors of the publication of an article “seriously questioning” him. Psychoanalyst and director Gérard Miller is accused by three women of sexual assault and rape, reveals an investigation published Wednesday on the website Elle magazine,
Gérard Miller, 75, disputes the facts and assures in the same article “that he has never sexually abused anyone, under any circumstances”.
Hypnosis session
The magazine reports the testimony of journalist and director Muriel Cousin, who claims to have been touched during a hypnosis session in 1990, when she was 23 years old. It had not then “occurred to him to file a complaint” because “at the time, that was not done”.
Another woman denounces a rape during such a session in 2004, when she was 19 years old, after having attended a program in which the famous psychoanalyst and columnist, now active on the left with La France insoumise, participated. . According to her, the events took place at the home of Gérard Miller, after a game based on hypnosis. ” I can not move anymore. I am a doll that we undress and to whom we can do whatever we want,” she testifies.
Furthermore, a young woman aged 19 at the time in 1993, who worked as a babysitter for the psychoanalyst, also reported a sexual assault while he was driving her home by car.
In a movie
According to Elle magazine, an actress from the film Terminale (1998) on which Gérard Miller was a screenwriter, “would have suffered a sexual assault, under the cover of a hypnosis session at the psychoanalyst’s home, on the couch in his office”.
An interview with filmmaker Benoît Jacquot conducted in 2011 by Gérard Miller for the purposes of a documentary recently came to the surface. The filmmaker spoke of his relationships with young actresses including Judith Godrèche, then a minor, in front of a conciliatory Gérard Miller.
Gérard Miller had to justify himself: “Today, I could no longer imagine the same film, because we are no longer in this collective blindness, we must carefully measure what has changed, otherwise we forget what was. revolutionary in MeToo,” he declared to France 5 in early January.