I can no longer allow what I hear, what I have read about myself for several months.

I thought I didnt care, but no, actually no.

This all gets to me.

Gérard Depardieu

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Worse still, it wipes me out, he wrote.

I finally want to tell you my truth.

I have never, ever abused a woman, he wrote.

Gérard Depardieu

Hurting a woman would be like kicking my own mother in the stomach, he continued.

She says today that she was raped there.

She came back a second time.

There has never been any coercion, violence or protest between us.

She wanted to sing Barbaras songs at the Cirque dHiver with me.

I told her no… She filed a complaint.

Depardieu also addressed the accusations of sexually impropriate behavior on set.