Godreche said this week that she was under his influence and that the relationship was wrong.
Because I now have an adolescent daughter, Ive realized what happened to me…
I was navigating a world without rules or laws alone.
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I ask myself now, whether the adults were saying to themselves: Theres a problem.
What is she doing here?, she toldElle.
Godreche finally named Jacquot in a series of social media posts on Saturday (January 6).
He is called Benoit Jacquot…
He still manipulates those who might associate their names with mine.
He threatens to take me to court for defamation.
Seeing myself transformed into an object and being talked about like a thing, rather than speaking for myself.
I was in a state of panic, she said.
There was no consent.
Consent does not exist at 14.
Youre not excited at 14 about sleeping with a 40-year-old guy, she continued.
He reverses the roles.
He projects his excitement onto me.
I experienced this sexualization, I was there.
Its the pleasure of a monster.
Weve reached out to the filmmaker for comment.
The French film industrys embrace of the#MeToomovement has been lukewarm until now.
