MADRID, 20 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish journalist and writer Ruth Baza, who has denounced the French actor Gérard Depardieu for a rape in 1995 during an interview, has acknowledged that the first contact with the artist was “very terrible” because he was “very aggressive and violent” and He didn’t want to talk to her, coming to despise her.
“The first contact was very terrible because his behavior was very aggressive, very violent, he did not want to talk to me and he despised me. It was a disaster. He ignored me,” recalled the journalist, who was 23 years old when it happened, in an interview. with Europa Press.
The actor, who was premiering the film ‘Colonel Chabert’, had a “disheveled” image for Baza, who claims that it was difficult for him to recognize him. “When I meet Depardieu in person, his attitude is truly aggressive, violent, very contemptuous and I didn’t have that idea of ??him. Physically it also disconcerted me because when I saw him pass by, his appearance caught my attention because he looked very disheveled, with greasy hair and much thinner than it appeared on the screen,” he detailed.
The interview was a professional achievement for Baza, although the actor’s attitude caused her to stop the interview herself. “I started with some joking comment and he didn’t even laugh. He didn’t answer me or look at my face. I felt really bad because he was ignoring me as if I were nothing or nobody and the truth is that I lost my mind. my throat and I burst out crying and turned off the recorder. Later, that also happened to him, he also collapsed and saw that he had screwed up a lot, he started to cry and told me that he had a series of problems, that his son was near death. There we both had a moment of comfort in each other and we ended up crying for our own pain,” he recalled.
Later, the journalist adds, the interview was “wonderful” because the conversation was “spontaneous and very interesting”, despite the fact that she perceived Depardieu as “Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde.” “He started out as a violent man and transformed into a man who knew how to console me, knew how to confess and finally behaved like a monster,” she said.
In her complaint, Baza recounts how the actor kissed her on the face and neck and penetrated her with his fingers through her clothes. “She kissed me deeply on her lips and then on her face with frenzy. Suddenly, I noticed her hand on my chest and then on my crotch, I couldn’t move,” the actress explained to ‘La Vanguardia’ .
In this sense, Baza specifies that the actor’s apology occurred while he was on her. “He apologized to me thousands of times while he was on top of me,” she reveals, before adding that the actor liked the interview. “When the interview was published, they really liked it and congratulated me,” she says.
Ruth Baza acknowledges that these are difficult days for her, although she emphasizes that she is “moved and shocked” by all the love she has received in the last few hours. “It’s been overwhelming, and I’m receiving a lot of love, a lot of encouragement and support. That gives me strength because these months have been really very complicated and very hard for me,” she emphasizes.
During the interview with Europa Press, Baza assures that he has felt the “obligation and duty” to denounce Depardieu and specifies that he feels “guilt” for having forgotten that situation for almost 30 years due to the ‘shock’ generated.
“I have felt the obligation and duty to make my case known, to help other people and also to help myself overcome it. My obligation is to tell my story so that it serves as a leverage, as an inspiration, for other people who have gone through an event like mine, which they have forgotten and who years later have remembered that they have been victims, or who have survived, I would rather say, an event as abhorrent as this one. And of course, second the motion of all those women who have been harassed,” she says.
In this regard, he regrets that it is too late to file a complaint, although it is not ruled out that his case be investigated. “According to what they told me, after almost four hours of testimony, they told me that I had to wait to see what route it has there in France. It has already been made known to the French authorities and they will decide what to investigate and if my complaint will be adds to those that are already filed by other women,” she says.
If that finally happens, Baza adds that it will help Depardieu’s victims to be “calm and at peace.” Finally, the journalist concludes by saying that “coming back is going to be complicated” and insists that she has reported out of moral obligation “as a person, woman and survivor.”
In recent months, Gérard Depardieu has received various accusations of sexual violence against thirteen women, during the filming of eleven films released between 2004 and 2022, according to the French newspaper ‘Mediapart’ last April.
Recently, on December 7, the French actress Hélène Darras denounced the actor for sexual assault in the 2007 film ‘Disco’, according to the digital portal ‘France Info’, which details that the complaint was filed in Paris last month September, following Darras’ collaboration with a journalistic investigation about Depardieu.
The actress claims that Depardieu’s behavior was “ungovernable” and details that he proposed going to her dressing room, which she refused, although that did not supposedly stop the actor from continuing to “grope her.”
