Nearly 50 years after the end of their relationship, actress Catherine Hiegel claims to have been assaulted by Richard Berry while she was pregnant with their daughter Coline.
After the daughter, it is up to the mother and ex-partner to accuse. As part of a campaign and photo exhibition entitled “After the violence”, Catherine Hiegel posed with a strong message. In the image relayed on social networks Thursday May 23, the actress accuses her former companion Richard Berry, the father of her daughter Coline, of having assaulted her while she was pregnant.
“He bangs my head against the sink, stitched up at the arch; several slaps of course…”, first wrote the 77-year-old actress. “The last one, seven months pregnant, exploded my eardrum. Coline turns around in my stomach. Sentenced to a cesarean section. I didn’t complain, I left him! » Catherine Hiegel therefore denounces violence which dates back to the mid-1970s, when she shared the life of Richard Berry. In the comments, Coline Berry-Rojtman welcomed her mother’s speech, writing: “I’m proud of you, mom.”
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Richard Berry therefore finds himself under the fire of new accusations, he who was already accused of incest by his daughter for acts dating from the mid-1980s, when he had shared custody and lived with his partner. then, Jeane Manson. An accusation he has always contested. Following Coline’s high-profile testimony in January 2021, the investigation opened in Paris targeting Richard Berry was dismissed on August 31, 2022 due to statute of limitations.
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“There is nothing more painful than being accused of a crime you did not commit, especially by your daughter. Coline has gone very far […] “, commented the 73-year-old actor to “JDD”, in December 2022. He then confided to what extent his wife Pascal Louange, their granddaughter Mila, and his other daughter Joséphine, born from his past marriage with the Franco-British actress Jessica Forde, suffered from this affair.
Richard Berry accused of violence by his ex, of incest by his daughter
For her part, Jeane Manson has decided to sue her ex-daughter-in-law for defamation before the Aurillac court, in Cantal, where she lives. In April 2022, the court sentenced Coline Berry-Rojtman to a fine of 2,000 euros for defamation and 20.00 euros in damages. The Riom Court of Appeal (Puy-de-Dôme) confirmed this conviction in December 2022.
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Catherine Hiegel and her daughter Coline Berry at the defamation trial of Coline Berry against Jeane Manson at the Lyon court, May 7, 2024.
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But in December 2023, the Court of Cassation annulled this judgment and sent the case back to the Lyon Court of Appeal. The hearing which was held at the beginning of May in Lyon – in the presence of Marilou Berry and Vahina Giocante, who support Coline – took a dramatic turn since Jeane Manson suffered a heart attack in the middle of the hearing, before being hospitalized. The judgment was reserved until July 17.
