Actress apologises to assault victims who were offended by controversial letter.
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Catherine Deneuve
French actress Catherine Deneuve has written an open letter apologising to sexual assault victims who felt offended by an editorial she signed criticising the #MeToo campaign.
“I reach out to all the victims of these hateful acts who felt assaulted by the editorial in Le Monde. It is to them only that I offer my apologies,” the La Belle Du Jour star wrote in a letter published on the website of French newspaper Liberation on Sunday.
But the actress stood by the thrust of last week’s controversial tract in Le Monde week defending men’s right “to hit on women” and blasting the #MeToo campaign and its French equivalent #balancetonporc as puritanical movements that threatened sexual freedom.
As the most high-profile signatory of the editorial signed by 100 women, Deneuve has been at the centre of the media storm and fierce...
Source: Screen archive
Catherine Deneuve
French actress Catherine Deneuve has written an open letter apologising to sexual assault victims who felt offended by an editorial she signed criticising the #MeToo campaign.
“I reach out to all the victims of these hateful acts who felt assaulted by the editorial in Le Monde. It is to them only that I offer my apologies,” the La Belle Du Jour star wrote in a letter published on the website of French newspaper Liberation on Sunday.
But the actress stood by the thrust of last week’s controversial tract in Le Monde week defending men’s right “to hit on women” and blasting the #MeToo campaign and its French equivalent #balancetonporc as puritanical movements that threatened sexual freedom.
As the most high-profile signatory of the editorial signed by 100 women, Deneuve has been at the centre of the media storm and fierce...
- 1/15/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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