Three women accuse psychoanalyst and director Gérard Miller of sexual assault and rape, notably during hypnosis sessions, some of which are very old, in an investigation published this Wednesday, January 31 on the Elle magazine website, which the 'interested.
Gérard Miller, 75, assures the weekly “that he has never sexually abused anyone, under any circumstances”.
He had anticipated this publication, indicating on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday that he had been informed by the two authors of the publication of an article “seriously questioning” him.
Two journalists from Elle magazine informed me, without giving me details, that they were going to publish an article seriously questioning me.
As soon as I become aware of the article, I will react as soon as possible here.
— Gérard Miller (@millerofficiel) January 26, 2024
“As soon as I become aware of the article, I will react as soon as possible here,” he wrote at the time, something he has not yet done this Wednesday morning.
Facts of rape and sexual assault
The magazine reports the story of journalist and director Muriel Cousin, who claims to have been touched during a hypnosis session in 1990, when she was 23 years old.
It had not then “occurred to him to file a complaint” because “at the time, that was not done”.
Another woman denounces a rape during such a session in 2004, when she was 19 years old, after having attended a program in which the famous psychoanalyst and columnist, now active on the left with La France insoumise, participated. .
According to her, the events took place at the home of Gérard Miller, after a game based on hypnosis.
" I can not move anymore.
I am a doll that we undress and to whom we can do whatever we want,” she testifies.
Furthermore, a young woman aged 19 at the time in 1993, who worked as a babysitter for the psychoanalyst, also reported a sexual assault while he was driving her home by car.
“Problematic behavior” during a film shoot
According to Elle magazine, an actress in the film “Terminal” (1998), on which Gérard Miller was a screenwriter, “would have suffered a sexual assault, under the guise of a hypnosis session at the psychoanalyst's home, on the couch in his office ".
Actress Anna Mouglalis, for her part, recalls a meeting the same year with the psychoanalyst for this film.
“I tell myself that nothing is going well with this meeting.
The atmosphere is tense, she says.
The next few days on set, all the girls were talking about his problematic behavior.
One of them told us that she had allowed herself to be hypnotized and had sex.
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An interview with filmmaker Benoît Jacquot conducted in 2011 by Gérard Miller for the purposes of a documentary recently came to the surface.
The filmmaker spoke of his relationships with young actresses including Judith Godrèche, then a minor, in front of a conciliatory Gérard Miller.
Also read Why Judith Godrèche decided to reveal the name of Benoît Jacquot, with whom she lived “under the influence” at 14 years old
Gérard Miller had to justify himself: “Today, I could no longer imagine the same film, because we are no longer in this collective blindness, we must carefully measure what has changed, otherwise we forget what was. revolutionary in MeToo”, he declared to France 5 on January 10, when he was invited on the set of the show “C ce soir”.