"With my brother we are eighteen months apart"
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Richard Berry's younger sister Marie Berry loves her brother.
“My father assigned him from an early age to look after me.
We had the same childhood.
It creates links, that's obvious.
But that also means that I know him better than anyone. ”
In 2005, when she had to have a kidney transplant.
Her brother gives her one of his own.
She decided today to come out of her silence to give her support after the accusations of Coline Berry-Rojtman, daughter of the actor, who accuses her father of incest.
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In the columns of the
Parisian
, she is indignant, first of all, at the testimony of Marilou, cousin and support of Coline.
His words, reported by
Le Monde
, point to the alleged complicity of their aunt and their grandmother, who would have preferred to close their eyes to the actions of Richard Berry.
“She lends me words that have never been said on this subject.
[...]
I consider it insulting to be told such serious things to me and to my mother.
She is no longer there to confirm what I am telling you, but I am convinced that she and Marilou have never spoken of these accusations,
”she confides.
Family quarrel
Returning to this family scandal, Marie Berry recounts having learned of Coline's accusations in 2014.
“She had sent him appalling emails whose main object was the hatred she had for Pascale, Richard's partner.
It was in one of them that she spoke for the first time of '' abuse ''. "
At the time, the actor's daughter and wife were both pregnant.
A coincidence at the source of the tensions between Coline and her father.
“
I think Coline suffered terribly from the absence of her father who was not there for her, unlike her half-sisters.
As an adult, he helped her in her career but that doesn't make up for everything.
She felt eclipsed every time a new woman walked in without her life.
For her, they were all assholes… As soon as he left one of his companions, she came back to life. "
To read also: Hearing of Coline Berry: "We did not come empty-handed" declares his lawyer
But, if these allegations were the culmination of the falling out between the Berries, the bickering did exist.
“There have been so many arguments, resentments, conflicts of a whole different kind.
And today everything is mixed up
, Marie despairs.
I was very close to my niece.
I considered her a bit like my daughter.
Her father was very young when she was born.
He was twenty-six and a career that was just starting.
He had just entered the Comédie-Française.
He and his mother were not present and very concerned about their respective careers.
Richard was never alone with his daughter.
Coline spent her weekends with my parents ”
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Would the sister be blinded by her brotherly love?
Marie Berry
"notes that Jeane Manson and especially her daughter, whom Coline claims were stakeholders and witnesses of the scenes of incest that she describes, formally denies these accusations"
.
However, as she recalls,
"they are the only direct witnesses, and they deny."
Especially since Richard Berry has kept no link with his former companion and his ex-daughter-in-law.
