Emmanuel Beart reveals that he was a victim of incest.

He has just broken forty-five years of silence. Emmanuel Beart reveals for the first time that he was a victim of incest between the ages of 11 and 15. “I’m 11 years old, it’s night, I’m sure. You tear up my sleep, like you tear up my nightgown, the French actress says from the first seconds.So loud silenceA documentary aired on M6 on September 24, which he co-directed and which our partners The Obs were able to preview.

“It’s like this time has stopped, this polar silence has left you across space. And as if it was already written that no one will ever testify. I am very cold. No tears come from my mouth, no words form in my mouth, my mouth is sewn shut. When it’s day again, everything seems intact, as if nothing happened.

If he doesn’t reveal the identity of his attacker, then the journalists The Obs Elodie Lepage and Fabrice Tassel deny the version of her father, Guy Beart, who died in 2015. “And if my father, my mother, my school, my friends don’t see anything, it means that everything can start again. And you will start again in four years. Today, the scars remain there, in my DNA. My nights are sleepless one after another. I scream into the silence like millions of others that no one hears.

Help from grandma

Later, at the end of the film, Emmanuel Beart reveals that his incest was able to end thanks to his maternal grandmother, Nellie. This woman, with whom he was very close, lived with the actress until her death in 2011 at the age of 107. The Obs. “If my grandmother hadn’t intervened, and if I hadn’t been put on this train at the age of 15 to join my father, I’m not sure I would have been able to live, c It’s just as cruel; as real as that.” Again, the circumstances of this hasty departure are not detailed. At this point, it was a priori that the actress would have to leave Cogolin, Var, where she lived with her mother and her four half-brothers and half-sister, to join her father in the suburbs of Paris, who also had: another daughter, Eva, by her side.

Unpublished, this statement by Emmanuel Beart would be due to various speeches on the subject, starting with the publication of the shocking book in early 2020. Consent By Vanessa Springora. The editor denounced the influence of writer Gabriel Matzneff, who had sex with her when she was 14 and he was 49. A testimony that freed speech about the unspeakable. A year later, Camille Kushner thus removed the veil of incest Big family . The daughter of Evelyn Pizier and Bernard Kushner accused her stepfather, political scientist Olivier Duhamel, of sexually abusing her twin brother, who was a teenager at the time.

In the video: the trailer of the documentary Incest, stop being silent