CNN —French film actress Emmanuelle Béart has revealed that she was a victim of incest, continuing a national reckoning with child sexual abuse in France. Béart tells her story as part of the documentary, “Un silence si bruyant” (“Such a loud silence”), which she co-directed. Mikova went on to say that Béart did not want to name her abuser for “family reasons.”Beart played Claire Phelps in the film "Mission: Impossible" (1996). Let’s break the silence.”The issue of incest and child sexual abuse has come to fore in France in recent years after an accusation in a prominent family prompted a national reckoning. “Being subjected to personal attacks, and in an attempt to preserve the institutions in which I work, I terminate my functions,” Duhamel wrote on Twitter shortly after the accusations surfaced.

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Persons: Emmanuelle Béart, Manon, Béart, Anastasia Mikova, –, Guy Béart –, Mikova, ” Beart, Claire Phelps, Murray, “, ”, ” Béart, Elle, Charlotte Caubel, Camille Kouchner, Olivier Duhamel, Duhamel, ” Duhamel, BFMTV Organizations: CNN, Sciences Po, Twitter, Reuters Locations: French, France, “, Socialist, Paris