This past Tuesday, December 19, the news broke that the 51-year-old Spanish journalist and writer Ruth Baza had filed a complaint against the popular French actor Gérard Depardieu for sexual assault. The events occurred 28 years ago, more specifically on October 12, 1995, when the young 23-year-old journalist had to travel to Paris to conduct an interview with the famous actor for Cinemanía magazine, the company where she worked at that time.
The meeting was held at the offices of the production company Roissy Films, on Avenue Georges V in Paris. The journalist has reported that after finishing the interview, the actor, with a very aggressive attitude, had kissed her on the face and neck insistently, in addition to putting his hand on her crotch. ”Suddenly I noticed her hand on my chest and then on my crotch, I couldn’t move, I disconnected from my body because she had invaded me,” she said.
With the Spanish writer’s complaint, there are now thirteen women who have denounced the 73-year-old actor, accusing him of various sexual abuses, which would have occurred between 2004 and 2022, coinciding with the time of greatest popularity of the French interpreter. In addition, Gérard Depardieu is also in the spotlight for his obscene comments and his controversy with France. A series of scandals that have ended up definitively destroying the actor’s public figure.
One day after learning of the new complaint against the actor, journalist Ruth Baza intervened this Wednesday on the Sonsoles Ónega program to recount the nightmare she had suffered 28 years ago. ”First of all, I want to thank you all for the love and support you are giving me to be able to tell my story,” she declared.
The writer felt totally liberated after having told everything that happened. ”It has been many months of eating the entire story by myself, of remembering all the facts, of having the facts constantly accompany me, of a lot of silence, of a lot of pain, an unbearable pain. The abuse destroyed me. And I have lived with a lot of shame and guilt for having forgotten it,’ she confessed.
”All these memories have been completely buried and shielded in an interior safe that did not come out until April and although now I am reliving and verbalizing them with all of you, it is now that I have really realized the whole fact,” he stated. .
