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Fanny Ardant Supports Gérard Depardieu At Sexual Assault Trial: “If I Did Not Defend My Friend, I Would Blame Myself For The Rest Of My Life”


Fanny Ardant Supports Gérard Depardieu At Sexual Assault Trial: "If I Did Not Come To Defend My Friend, I Would Blame Myself For The Rest Of My Life"

French star Fanny Ardant took to the stand at Gerard Depardieu ’s ongoing sexual assault trial in Paris on Wednesday, to defend her long-time friend and sporadic co-star. Ardant was speaking on the third day of Depardieu’s trial in the French capital on charges of sexual assault related to two separate accusations of incidents alleged to have happened on the set of Jean Becker’s The Green Shutters in 2021. Ardant acknowledged Depardieu’s larger than life character and penchant for vulgar language, suggesting that the actor had few social graces and would have spoken to late Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the same way that he spoke to an electrician.

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