By Ivy Cousteau
– Published on May 31, 2024 at 2:28 p.m.modified on May 31, 2024 at 5:05 p.m.
While he is accused of rape and sexual assault, Gérard Depardieu remains silent as a grave. However, the actor can count on JoeyStarr to break the silence for him, with a statement that had the effect of a bombshell.
Gérard Depardieu finds itself at the heart of a legal storm, accused of multiple sexual assaults on a film set, with a trial scheduled for October. Complaints against the actor from Châteauroux piled up, denouncing inappropriate behavior towards women. The controversy, now massive, even led to a reaction fromEmmanuel Macron. The world of showbiz is in turmoil, divided between those who support Depardieu via a platform and those who strongly oppose it. In the midst of this chaos, JoeyStarr decided to add his two cents with an unexpected statement to say the least. Currently showing in the series “The Replacement” with Clementine Célarié on TF1, his speech further raised the temperature.
Gérard Depardieu: JoeyStarr supports him!
When “Le Figaro” surveyed Clémentine Célarié about the Depardieu affair, the companion of Christophe Reichert was quick to respond immediately: “Ah I’m not talking about that! I don’t want to add fuel to the fire.” As for Joey Starr, we can say that he had something to say!
“When Clémentine spoke to me about it, I told her: ‘I don’t know if it will do you any favors if I sign… with my course’. On the other hand, I agreed with them, I said it was crazy. Go to his house too, burn him at the stake! “, he cried. For the rapperGérard Depardieu is the victim of a ” witch hunt ! Where are we now? This processing of information which is done on a person or on a subject while there are people dying in the Republic of Congo or we are still under the colonial yoke in the Antilles. I find it much more serious. I’m not saying that the subject is not serious – I won’t comment -, but I found it horrible, especially since it’s pending, we don’t know. The fact remains that we broke someone.”
Depardieu affair, JoeyStarr’s shocking arguments
JoeyStarr’s statement sparked a real outcry among Internet users, especially given his criminal record for assaults against women. Despite this, the 56 year old artist believes that the media treatment of one’s own affairs was unfair, just like that of the actor. “ I say that because I was entitled to it too, I had clashes and I found myself on the front page of 8 p.m. on TF1 or any channel for something where I said to myself: ‘It’s not happening nothing in the world or what there guys? ‘I was made out to be someone who beat women when I have scars on my face that prove that I like competitive pain in the ass and that creates friction. »
If JoeyStarr, Didier Morville, his real name, is not the first to express his support for Gérard Depardieu, he is certainly the first to use such polarizing, even inappropriate, arguments. Until now, the actresses who have spoken about the icon of French cinema have all claimed to have never been victims of inappropriate behavior on his part.
Gerard Depardieu: judgment scheduled for October
Apart from that filed by the actress Charlotte Arnoult in 2018, no less than three women filed a complaint against the monster of French cinema. It is about thea production designer on the set of the Green shutters, a assistant director on this same shoot and a former film assistant.
Placed in police custody on April 29, the 75-year-old actor will appear before a judge in October 2024. “At the end of his police custody at the 3rd judicial police district, Gérard Depardieu was given a summons to appear before the criminal court […] for sexual assaults likely to have been committed in September 2021 to the detriment of two victims, on the set of the film Les shutters vertes »notably specified the prosecution.
