CATHERINE DENEUVE

French actor apologises to sexual assault victims after worldwide feminist backlash for bashing the #MeToo movement

Deneuve was one of 100 prominent French women who signed an open letter last week defending men’s freedom to “hit on” women, and inferring that women fondled on public transport should just get over it

She insisted there was nothing in the original open letter that said “anything good about harassment, otherwise I wouldn’t have signed it”

Her statement was seen as an attempt to distance herself from porn star-turned-agony aunt Brigitte Lahaie, who claimed on Thursday that some women have orgasms when they are raped.