Three women already accused the psychoanalyst of sexual assault committed under hypnosis in an investigation published on January 31. According to new testimonies, there are now 41 of them to blame him.
On January 31, the magazine She revealed in an investigation that three women accused Gérard Miller of rape and sexual assault while they were under hypnosis. The main person concerned then denied the facts in a press release sent to BFMTVrecognizing however relationships and encounters that are part of “an unequal relationship”.
Tuesday 6 February, it was the turn of Mediapart to make new revelations. The news site reported the testimony of 10 women, aged 16 to 21 at the time of the events which they accuse the psychoanalyst of. Facts which allegedly took place between 1995 and 2016. Gérard Miller was then between 47 and 68 years old. Now aged 75, he was accused in these various testimonies of sexual assault or of having engaged in inappropriate behavior. Mediapart stressed that among the 10 new women who claimed to be victims, three were minors at the time of the events. One of them, aged 21 years old at the time (in 1995), would have sent a complaint on February 6, 2024.
Contacted by Mediapart, Gérard Miller again did not dispute any of these encounters, and said he did not “question for a moment the emotion, the anger and the suffering” of these women. However, he denied having forced them and assured that he had always obtained their consent. The psychoanalyst, on the other hand, confided that he had underestimated at the time the “dissymmetry” which existed between him, “a man of power”, and these “younger” women.
This Thursday, February 8, She revealed that following its investigation no less than 41 women had contacted the reaction. By discovering the testimonies, they would have “felt like they were reading their story”. Among them, 18 would have accused the psychoanalyst of rapes and sexual assaults that occurred between 1993 and 2020. The others would have rather mentioned attempted assaults. The majority of them reported having a meeting at the Parisian home of Gérard Miller with, in most cases, a hypnosis session. As revealed by Mediapart, some of the alleged victims are believed to be minors. Some have also accused him of having shown a certain interest in their virginity. Gérard Miller also reacted to the announcement of the publication of these new testimonies.
ELLE magazine told me this evening that its article of January 31 seriously incriminating me has given rise in a few days to dozens of accusatory testimonies from women which will be published tomorrow morning, by amalgamating under the same infamous qualifications multiple
— Gérard Miller (@millerofficiel) February 7, 2024
What the first three women who implicated Gérard Miller say
The magazine’s investigation She, published at the end of January, brought together numerous testimonies on the actions of Gérard Miller. The first collected was that of the journalist and director Muriel Cousin. The events she spoke of dated back to 1990 when she was 23 years old and began her career as a freelancer for “Globe” magazine. It is in the editorial office of the media that they meet and when the psychoanalyst announces that he is looking for help for an article on hypnosis, Muriel Cousin volunteers. She declared toShe having suffered touching during this hypnosis session. She also explained: “It never occurred to me to file a complaint. At the time, that wasn’t done.”
The second woman to file a complaint against Gérard Miller told the magazine She that her assault had occurred in 2004, when she was 19 and Mr. Miller was 55. The psychoanalyst is said to have invited the young woman and a friend to his home after meeting at the end of a recording of the emission We tried everything on France 2. Gérard Miller would have offered a hypnosis session to the two young women. The young woman tells the magazine of her inability to react to the psychoanalyst’s actions, after the departure of her friend, saying she was still in a daze.
Other testimonies describing similar actions were collected by She and dates from the time when Gérard Miller served as screenwriter. Several actresses like Anna Mouglalis or Cécile Rebboah and others who preferred to remain anonymous described how they found themselves in meetings that they considered inappropriate with the screenwriter. The latter regularly offered to help actresses prepare for their roles or offered them hypnosis sessions.
The third woman who accused Gérard Miller of sexual assault had been the babysitter of the psychoanalyst’s eldest son. The facts date from 1993 when the young woman was 19 years old. She affirmed to She having also suffered touching while Gérard Miller had dropped her off at her home by car.
One of the youngest women who testified was a high school student at the time of the events. She would have contacted Gérard Miller for an interview for the high school newspaper. She then assured that the psychoanalyst would have forced him to perform oral sex on her.
Gérard Miller, psychoanalyst and columnist on France Inter and France 2, screenwriter and also professor of philosophy at Paris-8 University, denies all the accusations against him. Asked by She, he said he “never sexually abused anyone under any circumstances.”