The actress denounced acts of domestic violence on the part of the actor, while she was pregnant with Coline Berry-Rojtman, in the 1970s.
“I couldn’t stand hearing him call me a “dirty Jew”.» In a written message, revealed in the show Do not touch My TV , Richard Berry would have admitted to having behaved violently with his ex-partner Catherine Hiegel. The actor would explain that he raised his hand when she was pregnant, confirming part of the accusations that the actress made public last week.
In an SMS that columnist Fabien Lecoeuvre received and revealed Tuesday in the show, the 73-year-old actor returned to the new controversy which is shaking the Berry family. With a portrait taken for the exhibition After the violence by photographer Marc Melki, Catherine Hiegel described scenes of domestic violence inflicted by the actor. “He bangs my head against the sink. Sewn up at the arch, several slaps. The last one, seven months pregnant, exploded my eardrum. Coline turns around in my stomach. Sentenced to a cesarean section. I did not file a complaint. I left her !”, can we read on the notebook with which the actress poses.
“It was Coline who put me in contact with the photographer Marc Melki (…) During all these years, I never made a standard of what I experienced, only my friends knew about it, but today I’m afraid for Coline, who has become anorexic. Her father and Jeanne Manson said such horrible things about her, calling her a myth and a liar. That’s why I agreed to take the photo. I am rewarded because it did my daughter good, I made her feel happy”declared the former member of the Comédie-Française to the newspaper The world . “It was forty-eight years ago, it was a different time. If I had gone to a police station to file a complaint, they would have said to me: “What did you do to deserve this?” It was no use.”she added.
According to the messages received by Fabien Lecoeuvre, Richard Berry recognizes “having slapped Catherine” when he was 24. The actor explains that he could no longer stand the anti-Semitic insults from his ex-partner. “This is a deeply anti-Semitic family“, he said. The actor, however, disputes that his blows caused an injury to the arch. “She caused her injury on her own by vomiting in the sink because she was constantly dead drunk during her pregnancy. And even during pregnancy. Coline weighed 1.09 kg at birth, straight from the incubator.” According to the message read by the columnist, the actor turns the accusations against his ex-partner : “It’s Catherine the violent.”
The Berry family never stops tearing each other apart. In February 2021, Coline Berry-Rojtman filed a complaint against her father, actor Richard Berry, for “acts of incestuous rape or sexual assault, and corruption of a minor”. She also filed a complaint against her partner at the time, Jeane Manson. The actor has always denied the facts. The Paris public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation on February 3, 2021, closed without further action in August 2022, the facts denounced being time-barred.
