On Sunday, July 3, the actress posted a photo of her swollen face on Instagram. Three days later, he gave an emotional testimony to the Antenna France Inter:.
“One year ago, my face was injured, it was blue, purple under my eyes, I saw myself deformed,” he wrote in the title of his Instagram post. Judith Kemla did post pictures of her swollen face dated a year ago on Sunday, July 3. With this post, the actress in the movie Taste and color (2022) accused her ex-partner of hitting her during an argument in July 2021.
A post that the actress mentioned on air France Inter:, this Wednesday, July 6. “I was not premeditated about this speech at all,” he emphasized. I never imagined that I would show these photos.” Before adding, while mentioning her ex-husband, the father of her 5-year-old daughter; “However, I am amazed that it did not occur to him that this is possible. He should be ashamed of what happened and keep quiet.”
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“For a year I protected him, despite everything”
Then the actress gave a sad testimony about the domestic violence she suffered. They would start during her pregnancy. “It happens a lot, apparently, with women,” he said. Suddenly a woman’s body belongs to them (to the couple, editor’s note) indeed, there is a being that comes from within them. So you have to know everything about this body: how it has been loved by others, how it has been soiled by others.
She also revealed that she had sobs in her voice, which prompted her to make the difficult decision to press charges against her former companion. The latter will be none other than Johan Manka, the director Me and my brotherswhich is featured in the U Certain Regard selection at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, according to a Variety article published at the time.
The day after this argument, the actress, who did not show up for the preview of the film on the Croisette, filed a complaint against the director for domestic violence. “When I love, I love,” he said. I loved him and protected him for a year despite what happened. I filed a complaint because I saw her hurt and even other women. I was stunned after this attack.”
“Ma’am, we have to file a complaint.”
So the thirties returned to the incident that would take place on July 3, 2021, near the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris, and during which the film director threw the phone in his face. “Then the police tell me, ‘Ma’am, you have to file a complaint, because then it’s femicide.’ They received three calls at the same time from women who were victims of domestic violence. Judith Kemla couldn’t bring herself to file a lawsuit in the first place.
“I don’t say anything, I’m stunned,” he recalls. I don’t see myself protesting against my daughter’s father. I don’t have an inner click, you know? You have to press, you have to want.” What Judith Kemla describes as a night of guilt begins.
The actress tells. “During these five years, I fell in love with someone else, he confided. Nothing happened physically, but I fell in love. And feelings are not condemnable. They come, the heart opens at some point.” Before describing her girlfriend’s reaction: He would then ask her not to file a complaint and make sure to “turn the tide” in his favor by portraying himself as the victim of their conflict. The actress told the following events with Lea Salame.
“He’s at my house, waiting for me”
“My friend picked me up,” he recalled. He makes me believe that he is with his mother, that he has taken medicine, that he is harmless. I come home at 2 am completely groggy. He calls me and asks where I am. I go home and there I hear the bell of the washing machine, which stops. He is at my house, waiting for me. What if I went up?
At this moment, his girlfriend calls him and stops him from going home. The next day, this friend tells him the story of another woman who called him “intimidated” the day before. The latter would maintain a relationship with a man who was already in a relationship, for two years. Now he would threaten to destroy her life if she talked about their affair. This person will be none other than Judith Chemla’s companion. “And there I tell myself that he cannot harm this woman, that she is not my enemy,” said the actress.
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This is why he decided to file a complaint for the first time. Her ex-husband was subsequently taken into police custody before being released under judicial supervision. “The term of his police custody ends on July 6, he continued. On July 6, I had an abortion. I was one month pregnant. Fortunately, I was able to do that.” After four months of “intense” harassment, Judith Chemla decides to file a complaint again.
“He blew all his chances”
His former companion was sentenced on May 12. Which would not change the situation. “Despite the eight-month suspended sentence, he makes threats, continues to think that he is a victim,” he added. It is not enough to see his daughter every Monday on weekends, to have lunch with her every Tuesday afternoon, to see her half the holidays. He doesn’t doubt himself.”
The actress is today asking him for “immediate awareness” and claims she has “revealing” records of domestic abuse but never meant to harm herself. “I wanted his film to work, to keep him working,” he said. I never spoke. I wanted my daughter’s father to be successful, to show his talent. I wanted to give him a chance as a father, as a man, as an artist. He has screwed up one opportunity after another because he feels he is above the law.
“Never retract a complaint”
The actress also considered herself fortunate to have had the financial means to no longer work to take care of her children during these troubled times. He then invited victims of domestic violence to file complaints against their killers. “Do it, ladies, don’t be afraid,” he said. Never, ever, ever take a complaint you submit. They will fear you, they scared me, they made me feel guilty.” Before continuing, very excited. “I have received testimonies that tell me: “Thanks to you, I am starting the fight again.
“I had no choice”
Judith Chemla also spoke about the importance of sensitizing her 5-year-old daughter to this violence. “He (his former companion, editor’s note) complains to him about the situation, about not seeing him enough, when he technically sees her every week. He returns saying, “Why did you ask for justice? Why are you deciding your father’s life? Why don’t we do things like before?”, words against which the actress “decided to fight”.
“These words from my daughter who told me: “One day, if someone hurts me, I will not ask justice to protect me.” (…) I will fight so that she knows that she must protect herself and thus protect other women. And for him to understand that if he doesn’t change, his daughter will be a compliant battered woman. The actress also concludes. “We had to show the wounds so people would be aware. It came out on its own, I had no choice.
Source: Le Figaro
