Gérard Depardieu: Clémentine Célarié “dissociates” herself from the support platform she had signed

Actress Clémentine Célarié said Tuesday, January 9, that she wanted to “dissociate” herself from the platform in support of Gérard Depardieu, judging that she had “made a mistake” in signing it and presenting her “apologies to those she could have hurt.” “I absolutely want to dissociate myself from this platform,” she wrote in a text sent to AFP.

“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. He has been indicted for rape since 2020, following a complaint from an actress in her twenties, Charlotte Arnould.

This platform has since given rise to several “counter-tribunals”. 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 stage from January 18 in “I am the executioner’s mother”, in Paris.