Three women accuse the psychoanalyst of sexual assault committed under hypnosis in an investigation published this Wednesday, January 31. In his press release, Gérard Miller denied the facts, but nevertheless recognized “an unequal relationship”.
Psychoanalyst and columnist Gérard Miller is in turmoil. Several women accuse him of rape and sexual assault while they were under hypnosis, reveals an investigation conducted by the magazine She and published Wednesday January 31. While three women reported their testimonies to the magazine, mentioning some of the facts are not recent, the main person reacted strongly on Wednesday evening in a press release sent to BFMTV. Denying the facts with which he is accused, the famous psychoanalyst, now aged 75, nevertheless recognizes relationships and encounters which are part of “an unequal relationship”.
“There has never been anything that could be described as sexual assault or, worse, rape,” he assures, then referring to the case of the three women who testified: “With regard precisely to the women who blame me, if something displeased them when they were with me, I have no hesitation in affirming it: nothing that I perceived indicated to me that they wanted to put an end to to the situation, because otherwise I would have put an end to it right now.”
What women say who implicate Gérard Miller
The magazine’s investigation She brought together numerous testimonies on the actions of Gérard Miller. The first collected is that of the journalist and director Muriel Cousin. The events she talks about date 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 to Elle that she had been touched during this hypnosis session. She also declares: “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 Elle magazine that her attack occurred in 2004 when she was 19 and Mr. Miller was 55. The psychoanalyst allegedly invited the young woman and a friend to his home after being met at the end of a recording of the show “On a tout avoir” 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 tell how they found themselves in meetings that they consider inappropriate with the screenwriter. The latter regularly offered to help actresses prepare for their roles or offered them hypnosis sessions.
The third woman who accuses Gérard Miller of sexual assault was the babysitter of the psychoanalyst’s eldest son. The facts date from 1993 when the young woman was 19 years old. She claims to She having also suffered touching while Gérard Miller had dropped her off at her home by car.
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.”