Adèle Haenel, the multi-award-winning French actress whose recent credits include Cannes hits Portrait Of A Lady On Fire and Deerskin, has publicly accused French director Christophe Ruggia of sexu…
, has publicly accused French director Christophe Ruggia of sexually harassing her from the age of 12., the actress claims Ruggia began harassing her after she was cast in his 2002 drama. Haenel says that advances took place on numerous occasions and continued until she was 15.
In response to the piece, Ruggia sent the French website a statement via his lawyers saying that he “categorically refutes” any misconduct. The statement says that the pair had a “professional and affectionate relationship” and calls the reporting “slanderous.”Haenel claims that the incidents took place between 2001 and 2004, when she was aged 12-15 and the director was 36-39.
In the report, the actress says that she has come forward now after being inspired by HBO’s Michael Jackson doc. She says that, by coming forward, she is looking to “denounce the system of silence and complicity that makes this [conduct] possible”. The Mediapart investigation took place over six months and interviewed more than 30 people connected to Haenel and Ruggia, includingdirector Celine Sciamma and producer Bertrand Faivre, who produced Ruggia’s 2011 dramabut says in the piece he will no longer work with the director after learning of the investigation.
The report states it also obtained documents that corroborate the actresses’ accusations, including love letters sent to her by the director.Now 30 years old, Haenel is a six-time César Award nominee and a two-time winner, forIn the article, she says that her coming forward is “not to burn Christophe Ruggia…[but] to put the world back in the right direction… [and] that this exploitation of children, of women cease”.
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