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French President Emmanuel Macron Distances Himself From Gérard Depardieu Amid France’s #MeToo Wave
French President Emmanuel Macron Distances Himself From Gérard Depardieu Amid France's #MeToo Wave
French President Emmanuel Macron has clarified comments he made last year about Gérard Depardieu which seemed to suggest his support for the actor in the face of a tide of sexual assault accusations, which the latter has denied. Macron’s comments and interview comes amid a fresh#MeToo wave in France sparked by actress Judith Godrèche’s decision to speak up about her underage relationship with Benoit Jacquot in the 1980s, when she was 14-years-old and he was 39-years-old. Her actions and subsequent campaign to end a culture of silence around harassment in the French film business have unleashed a wave of #MeToo allegations from within the cinema world as well as other public and private walks of life.
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