“Anny Duperey, whose clumsy comments contravene the very meaning of our child protection action, informed us that she had expressed regrets and apologized to Judith Godrèche. We salute him,” writes SOS Children’s Villages France in a press release. “However, by mutual agreement, we agreed that it was preferable to put an end to his sponsorship,” adds the association.
This association takes care of siblings, entrusted to it by Child Welfare as part of a legal measure. The actress has been its godmother since 1993.
Anny Duperey, 76, had described as “extremely exaggerated” the statements of actress Judith Godrèche, 51, on the influence and physical violence, particularly sexual, that she says she experienced as a minor at the hands of by directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon.
“Six years with a director: under the influence I’m willing, but still consenting, right? », pretended to wonder Anny Duperey on RTL at the beginning of February. She then apologized, explaining that she had wanted “very clumsily (…) to temper the media excitement”.
The director of SOS Children’s Villages France, Isabelle Moret, thanks the actress “for her commitment” and “her availability over many years”, which “have been particularly valuable to us”. “Welcoming, hearing, respecting the words of children, in all circumstances, is at the heart of our associative project. Protecting them is the driving force behind our commitment,” underlines the association, which judges that, “in all circumstances, speech must be freed.”
At the beginning of February, Judith Godrèche filed a complaint against Benoît Jacquot, 77, for “violent rape” of a minor under the age of 15. She lived with him from 1986 – she was then 14 and he was 39 – until the early 1990s. A few days later, she accused another director, Jacques Doillon, 79, of sexual violence, again for alleged facts that occurred when she was a minor.