The actress Judith Godrèche, who accuses Jacques Doillon of sexual violence, reveals that she is being indicted for defamation after a complaint from the latter.
“It’s funny how it’s not funny in the end.” On her Instagram account, actress Judith Godrèche reveals that she received, this Tuesday, November 19, a “prior notice of indictment following the complaint from Jacques Doillon”, whom she accuses of sexual violence when she was a minor.
“When you cry at home after receiving a notice of indictment for defamation linked to the complaint filed by your attacker”, she begins in an Instagram story, writing “that Jacques Doillon's lawyer put someone to monitor [s]on Instagram” and has since “sent” “warnings” to his lawyer.
In another publication on the same social network, Judith Godrèche had accused the filmmaker of “filming with children (…) with whom he sleeps”. Which earned him a complaint for defamation, filed in February 2024.
“I have not counted the number of complaints for rape and sexual assault filed against Jacques Doillon. I know that mine is time-barred. But his defamation complaint is not. The indictment, in this case, is automatic. But still…”, underlines Judith Godrèche this Tuesday on Instagram.
In France, complaints for defamation trigger automatic indictments, which is not the case for other criminal proceedings.
“He compared himself to a pig”
At the start of the year, actress Judith Godrèche filed a complaint for rape of a 15-year-old minor against directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon. Against the latter, she denounces sexual violence committed on the set of the film The 15 year old girlreleased in 1989.
Still on Instagram, she says: “When I received this document, I thought of the letter that he (Jacques Doillon, Editor's note) had sent me to my parents. In which he compared himself to a pig. A pig jealous of Benoît Jacquot. I was 15 years old, so that was the last time he wrote to me. And I spent a lifetime painting the room pink – a room in which no one is sued for defamation. because no one files a complaint for rape.”
“So there you have it, this rosy life is different from the life I live. But at least my life today tells the truth,” she concludes.
Since her very first public speech, Judith Godrèche has become one of the faces of the fight against sexist and sexual violence, particularly in cinema.
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Under his leadership, a commission of inquiry into “sexual abuse and violence committed in cinema, audiovisual, fashion, live performance and advertising” was created in May 2024. A commission of inquiry dissolved, like the National Assembly, by Emmanuel Macron on June 9, 2024.
Lucie Valais Journalist BFMTV
