“I ended up in his bed, being his child wife.”

“I was so obedient, I was indoctrinated like I was a member of a cult.” Judith Godrech tells everything on the air of France Inter. All about her “relationship” with director Benoit Jacquet when she was a teenager. “I completely followed the rules of my guru,” says the actress on the microphone of Sonya Devillers. He decided to file a complaint against the film director on February 6. Since then, the Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into the “rape of a minor under 15” committed by an authority figure.

“Impossible to get away from it”

11 minutes into the interview, Judith Godrech first tells how she landed the job Consent (Vanessa Springora’s autobiographical account of her affair with Gabriel Matzneff when she was 14 and he was 50), which she had not read at the time of its release. A month after she denounced the 77-year-old director’s behavior on the set of Quotidien, she is returning in more detail to the director’s abuse, an alleged affair that began in the spring of 1986. , when he was only 14 years old. “I was his child’s wife,” said the woman who shared a bed with this man twenty-five years her senior. He describes an abusive relationship: slaps, fists and belts. “Sexual violence and sadism happened immediately,” assures the actress and director. “From the age of 14?” asks journalist Sonya Devillers. “Yes, of course. And it also creates a system of scarcity where I, very quickly, felt completely dependent. Where he even stages absences… He invents a whole past for himself (…) It was as if I suddenly met someone who was the best friend of my favorite writers, who had slept with all of them. my favorite actresses It’s like a hand closing around your heart and squeezing and squeezing and squeezing. And after that, it’s impossible to get away from it.”

“I was his child’s wife”

Judith Godrech, a mother of two and now 51 years old, tries to understand the influence of Benoit Jacque on her. But he insists on one point: he was never attracted to the film director. Although he claims otherwise. “I tried to think and tell myself. “When did I actually look at this person?” And I told myself that I want to go out with him. “Oh, she’s so pretty!” But really, never.” The aspiring actress saw in Benoit Jacquet first of all a “father figure”, as “an authority on the set”, “someone who talked to you about yourself as if you had never seen him before”. “She was creating a portrait of a girl, a child that would become yours, and it takes an army of adults to resist that. It would take an army of adults,” he says. “I was never attracted to Benoit Jacque, but I ended up with him and I ended up in his bed, being his wife, his little wife, the wife of his child.”

Thirty years later, the actress admits that she did not leave because of “fear”. “As soon as I started expressing desires or wishes that didn’t conform to these rules, it became terrifying.” And there the beatings and public humiliations are intensifying. Asked THE: world , Benoit Jaco denies all the accusations. He insists on the “loving” nature of this long relationship.

The Abuses of Jacques Doillon

At the microphone of Sonia Devillers, Judith Godrech also accuses director Jacques Doillon, with whom she starred. 15 year old girl paroled in 1989 for two counts of child molestation. He first mentions the events that took place in “Jane’s house [Birkin, compagne à l’époque du cinéaste], in Jacques Doillon’s office. “No one saw it and I didn’t tell anyone about it,” he explains. “But then on set it was amazing.”

In The fifteen-year-old girl, the actress plays the title role alongside Melville Pupo and Jacques Doillon himself. At that time, Judith Godresh was 15 years old, and the director was about forty. “What does he want from you, Doylon?” asks the reporter. Your acting talent? “The same answers to the interested person. “That Benoit Jaco? Your body? And so he abuses you? Sonia Devillers continues. Judith Godrech agrees.

He says today that Jacques Doillon “removed the actor” from the film to put him in his place to play Will, the father of the heroine’s friend, who gradually falls in love with her. “Suddenly he decides there’s a love scene between him and me, a sex scene,” says Judith Godrech. He explains that there were “45 takes” for this scene. “I take off my sweater, I’m shirtless, he grabs me, communicates with me,” he describes, detailing that Jane Birkin was present at the filming of this scene. “This is an extremely painful situation for him.” Jacques Doillon, whose new film, CE2:appointed on March 27, has not yet responded to this testimony.