“ I was 16 and he was 52 “. Actress Sarah Grappin revealed this Tuesday, February 13 in The Obs his relationship under the influence with the director Alain Corneauwho accuses her of rape and sexual assault.
It was by seeing Judith Godrèche’s various speeches that Sarah Grappin also found the courage to talk about the relationship of influence that linked her to Alain Corneau, whom she met in 1994 and who died in 2010.
“You are not the only one to experience this, it happened to Judith Godrèche”
Their relationship began in 1994, on the set of the film The new world. Sarah Grappin had done it 15 yearswhile Alain Corneau, 52. At the end of filming, the director allegedly took her hand, dragged her into a corner and asked her: “Do you want to kiss me?” “.
From here this relationship under influence would begin. If the young teenager is amazed by the prospect of interest in an older man, she does not want to have physical relations with him. To which Alain Corneau would have retorted “You are not the only one to experience this, it happened to Judith Godrèche”.
“I just want his gaze on me,” she says The Obs. But he treats her like her girlfriend, kisses her in the street, takes her to a restaurant.“ I felt like an adult “, explains.
Several sexual assaults
In The ObsSarah Grappin also describes several sexual assaults, including non-consensual digital penetration, when the director arranged to meet her at his home or in the car, when her then partner, Nadine Trintignant is absent.
“For a long time I was not capable of embellishment, I told myself a great love story to survive. The work of recent years has been to emerge from denial », she says. A denial from which she emerged in several phases. First of all, in 2003, after the death of Marie Trintignant, Alain Corneau’s daughter-in-law: “I’m watching an interview with Alain who talks about her, about her role in ‘Série noire’ [NDLR, qui est réalisé par Alain Corneau]and… I have a revelation. His gaze and the lexical field he uses are identical to those of our tête-à-têtes at Wepler. she says.
Because in this film Marie Trintignant plays the role of a 16 year old prostitute, who has a relationship with Patrick Dewaereeven older: “ I understand that the young actress at the mercy of an older man is his refrain, what he wants to film “, continues Sarah Grappin.
Sarah Grappin decided to testify after Judith Godrèche’s intervention
But he continued to remain silent until the Weinstein case in 2018, where he decided to testify anonymously, for fear of knockback. Because at the time, in French cinema, victims who dared to testify suffered a certain amount of violence.
But two years later, in 2021, it reads Consent From Vanessa Springora on his relationship with the writer Gabriel Matzneff. A new awareness, as she understands that the mechanisms of the relationship of influence between Springora and Matzneff are the same as between her and Alain Corneau. Then, a few weeks ago, Judith Godrèche’s various testimonies finally pushed her to speak openly too.
Contacted by The Obs, Nadine Trintignant denies all accusations: “I hear this nonsense from all sides, not about Alain, but about so many people and I don’t want to take part in it. This is all ridiculous. It’s not against you, but it’s against the way people talk nonsense. I don’t want anyone to say anything, especially about my husband who is dead and can no longer defend himself. »
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Source: Madmoizelle
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