Marie Berry is the sister of Richard Berry.
At 69, 18 months her junior, she claims her closeness to the actor, accused of incest by his daughter Coline Berry-Rojtman, and intends to defend him.
In 2005, he gave her one of his kidneys.
Which had given rise to a documentary and a TV movie.
Your niece Marilou Berry told Le Monde that you told him about Coline's accusations: “It's not dramatic either.
He didn't rape her.
You have to put a handkerchief on it ... "
MARIE BERRY.
She credits me with things that have never been said on this subject.
I was able to use this term
handkerchief
, it's an expression of my mother, but absolutely never to talk about accusations in which I do not believe.
As for the rest, it is simply not true.
I consider it insulting to be told such serious things to myself and to my mother.
She is no longer there to confirm what I am telling you, but I am convinced that she and Marilou never spoke of these accusations.
It was in 2014 that with my parents we learned from Richard what his daughter said.
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”… From 2014 to 2017, my parents and I no longer had relations with Coline.
It was my mother who reconnected with her before she died.
She wanted to see all of her grandchildren.
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In this torn family, you line up behind your brother when others support Coline.
How can you be so positive?
Our family was not torn apart by this.
There have been so many arguments, resentments, conflicts of a whole different kind.
And today everything is mixed up.
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 26 years old 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.
The charges came when she was 38 years old and expecting her last child.
Pascale, Richard's current wife, was also pregnant.
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.
Not all daughters in need of a father accuse them of incest.
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I don't have any proof if that's what mean, but those who say Coline is telling the truth don't have any either.
I note that Jeane Manson and especially her daughter, whom Coline claims to have been involved in and witnesses to the scenes of incest that she describes, formally denies these accusations.
These are the only direct witnesses, and they deny it.
It is for me fundamental.
Yet Richard did not retain any link with these two women.
In addition my niece has already in the past enunciated truths which were not, or half, contradicted accounts ... This helped forge my conviction.
Have you called her since she filed a complaint on January 25?
I called her when I heard that she had contacted journalists.
I told him his lies would end up killing his father.
I told him to stop lying.
She seemed convinced of what she was saying.
When I asked her why she was doing this, she told me it was time for shame to change sides.
Your brother gave you a kidney at the risk of his life, you are very close to him.
Do you think you can be completely objective?
Would I cover my brother because he gave me a kidney?
It is infamous.
It is true that he risked his life for me.
Moreover, Coline, who had been informed of the dangers of the operation by the doctors, had declared herself unfavorable to this intervention.
Not against me, but because she was afraid of losing her father.
With my brother we are eighteen months apart.
My father assigned him from a young age the task of looking after me.
We had the same childhood.
It creates links, that's obvious.
But it also means that I know him better than anyone.