Anny Duperey surprised everyone “taking up the defense” by Patrick Bruel right in the heart of the media storm that hit the singer. The 78-year-old actress, a key figure in the French audiovisual landscape, had affirmed on several occasions that her hysterical fans (those of Patrick Bruel: editor’s note) could almost have earned them a complaint for sexual assault. An outing which had attracted an avalanche of reviews.Â
Since then, the situation has become considerably worse for the artist: canceled concerts, withdrawal of Enfoirés, interrupted theatrical performances, and above all an indictment for rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and sexual harassmentpronounced on June 10, 2026. Patrick Bruel denies the facts with which he is accused and remains presumed innocent until proven guilty.
For her part, Anny Duperey made an about-face. Guest of the Culture Médias show on Europe 1 on June 11, she not only revised her position on the singer, but also announced that a new affair involving a celebrity was about to break out.
Anny Duperey makes a spectacular turnaround
A few weeks earlier, the actress gave yet another completely different speech. On the show Domino on the ABC Talk TV YouTube channel, then in the podcast We tell the public everythingshe had minimized the accusations targeting Patrick Bruel, denouncing what she called a “popular killing” and wondering, out loud, about the legitimacy of canceling concerts before any judgment.
Statements which had caused a lively controversy, at the very time when the testimonies against the artist were multiplying. Confronted with these positions taken by the journalist Thomas Isle on the set of Europe 1, Anny Duperey recognized the context of her first outings: “It started, at the very beginning, as a kind of joke that I made when it had not taken on this magnitude.” Then she blurted out, this time without the slightest ambiguity: “From, I think that indeed this gentleman, whom I have never met, has serious cock problemsthat’s for sure. It seems like he’s really in trouble and he’s a bit driven by his dick.”
A radical change of tone, which contrasts with his previous statements and reflects the evolution of the case since last March, when Flavie Flament filed a complaint for a rape committed when she was a minor, bringing to eight the number of women who have implicated the singer.
But Anny Duperey was not content to return to the Patrick Bruel case. On the set of Europe 1, she slipped in some information: another celebrity would be about to being caught up in similar accusations. “I know that there is a new one in the pipeline that will arrive, I can tell you right away. I was told”she said, visibly well informed, without however revealing the slightest identity.
The actress has, at the same time, broadened the debate to a fundamental question, that of the real protection of women victims of violence. Pointing out the gap between the media attention paid to cases involving well-known personalities and the treatment reserved for ordinary victims, she challenged the journalists present: “We don’t do much to protect women who are beaten in their kitchen and who don’t even dare to file a complaint. Or if they do, we don’t really take them seriously.”
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