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.
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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.
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.