It all started when Judith Godrèche denounced her controlling relationship with the filmmaker Benoît Jacquot when she was only 14 years old and he was 40. The journalist and ex-wife of Stéphane Guillon, Muriel Cousin, then decided, in January 2024, to do the same. In the magazine Elle releases an investigation which collects the testimony of several women who accuse the psychoanalyst and television man Gérard Miller of sexual assault and rape. Full member of the Ruquier gang in the show We tried everythingGérard Miller is quick to deny the accusations against him while emphasizing the importance of women’s voices. This Sunday, October 20, Thierry Ardisson, guest of the show C Mediareturned to this affair in his capacity as producer of the former France 2 show.
“Everyone had seen it“: Thierry Ardisson returns to the Gérard Miller affair
He hadn’t said anything yet – like the host ofWe tried everythingLaurent Ruquier, who, last February, justified his choice to remain silent. Thierry Ardisson was on the set of C Media when the team discussed the book this Sunday Serial Millerby Chloé Vienne. “I produced for ten years We tried everythingwith Gérard Miller present“, reacted the man in black. “We could see him going towards the girls in the audience and talking with them, we could see it. Everyone had seen that. What happened next, I didn’t know“, he said. At the time of the revelations, Isabelle Mergault, also a columnist for the show, believed that the psychoanalyst was no more interested in the women in the public than the other columnists. “We’re here, we’re going out, everyone wants to talk to you, etc… (…) he fascinated“, she affirmed.
“We saw a guy flirting with girls“: Thierry Ardisson talks about the atmosphere on TV sets
“That he took them to his house and hypnotized themno one came to tell me, so I didn’t know. (…) We saw a guy who flirted with girls, on TV sets, it happens. (…) I had parties that lasted until two in the morning and people like to flirt, I’m not the sex police“, continued Thierry Ardisson while emphasizing the difficulty of seeing Gérard Miller as an aggressor. “Gérard Miller is the left giving lessons, so we didn’t even dare to imagine. We couldn’t think – and every time I saw him, he gave me lessons, he took me down a little, explaining to me what to think, and what to think, was his own doxa, which was indeed a doxa of the extreme left“.
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