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A second French actress accused film director Benoit Jacquot Thursday, Feb. 22, of having had a “destructive hold” on her during a relationship that started when she was 16 and he was 52, after another filed a legal case alleging he raped her as a minor.
Isild Le Besco, 41, said their relationship included “a destructive hold, a loss of self… and especially psychological violence.
“For example, he would always tell me I was fat. There was physical violence, sometimes, in anger,” Le Besco told Le Parisien newspaper.
Her lawyer Benjamin Chouai told AFP she was thinking about filing a legal complaint.
Le Besco, who acted in Jacquot’s 2000 film “Sade” about the notorious Marquis de Sade when she was 16, said the relationship marked her.
“Afterwards, I experienced things that were even worse with other men because I was ready to squash myself for someone,” she said, without elaborating.
Earlier this month, she told Le Monde newspaper that her time with Jacquot had included “psychological and physical violence”. Jacquot, now 77, rejected the allegations.
