A few months ago, Lio had shouted his anger while talking about the Depardieu affair. And the singing star had notably tackled the actor Patrick Chesnais, too complacent in his eyes. He has just responded to him.
Patrick Chesnais was the guest of Jordan de Luxe, this Tuesday, September 24, in the show At Jordan’s. While he will be back in season 5 of the series HPIthe 77-year-old actor agreed to make some confidences in his own image: without mincing his words.
Lio exasperated by Patrick Chesnais’ comments about Gérard Depardieu
Last January, while he was invited on the BFMTV set, Patrick Chesnais did not hesitate to defend Gérard Depardieu, accused of rape and sexual assault by several women. He then judged “unacceptable” the media treatment reserved for him. “Today, we are in the era of suspicion, of accusation. It is the popular court of opinion and rumor that makes the law (…) Justice must do its job and until then, we must stop throwing to popular vindictiveness a guy who is a national monument
Divisive remarks which had Lio flying off the handle on the set of C to You. “I’m sorry, about Patrick Chesnais, my friend is right when she says: ‘He is too senile to hold a pen but not enough to shut his mouth'”the singer then let go. Before continuing: “We cannot reduce Gérard Depardieu’s remarks and the whole Depardieu affair to the fact that he is talking about rubbing the clitoris of a 10-year-old girl who is too far away to hear him. (in an extract reported in Complément d’enquête, editor’s note)“. And to conclude: “All that can be done on a set for years with the complicity of an entire environment that is in question today is unacceptable behavior that destroys.”
Patrick Chesnais responds to Lio: “I don’t care at all”
Asked by Jordan de Luxe about his speech last winter, Patrick Chesnais did not back down. “I was just saying that there was something that was great at one time, it was the presumption of innocence. It was an old thing that worked at the time (…)“, he nevertheless wanted to clarify to the presenter. He sticks to his position: as long as the courts have not declared Depardieu guilty, he is presumed innocent.
“It’s a strange sentence. It didn’t shock me. We live in a media universe, it’s also a way of existing in the media. People continue to exist in another way when they’re no longer singing, or acting. So I think there’s a bit of that.”he continued, referring to Lio. Before concluding, very calmly: “The fact of being in a somewhat ideological battle, feminism etc. which I understand and I also respect, yes it is a fight that gives an existence (…). I would not answer her anything, what I had to say about Depardieu I said (…) and if she calls me an old fool or I don’t know what I don’t care at all”.