Asia Argento Details alleged assault on Jimmy Bennett; Request X Factor Italy to rehire her

In a solemn address to an audience, Argento said that she had watched Bennett's release to the program. She had also heard her statements about their 2013 sexual relationship, which had occurred in a California hotel room, at the age of 37. me angry, "said Argento about the description of Bennett's events, according to a translation of The Hollywood Reporter. "But that made me especially sorry, because his eyes were glassy and there was no expression on his face. I saw him as a child who then failed in his career, a lost soul. "

Argento had played Bennett's mother in 2004 The heart is misleading above all things. Since that collaboration, Argento has stated that Bennett's acting career was down and that she felt bad for him. She claimed that pity was one of the reasons she had agreed to meet Bennett in 2013 to manage scripts for a "as in her time" scenario. But when Bennett arrived at the hotel, Argento claimed that he had no script or chaperone.

"I told him:" O.K., Jimmy, maybe we can make a movie together, I can find you a role, "she continued. "He turned on and we kissed at that moment. Then he began to kiss and touch me in a way that was not that of a child with his mother, but that of a boy with crazy hormones . "

"To see this boy who has always been like a child behaves like that with me has completely froze me," she said. "He literally jumped on me. he put me aside on the bed. he did what he had to do. He did not use a condom. It lasted two minutes. He had an orgasm. I was cold, unable to move. Shocked, I then asked him why he had acted that way and he told me that I was his sexual fantasy since the age of 12. "

Argento also featured on the SMS broadcast with his late boyfriend Anthony Bourdain. The messages, she said, included conversations about the $ 380,000 settlement she agreed to give to Bennett and partially paid by Bourdain. Asked about Bourdain's suicide, Argento said she was haunted by "a feeling of guilt for not seeing her pain. He never showed it to me, "she said. "That's Bourdain who has protected me. I was the depressed. He told me we would be happy. He gave me the best two years of my life, and no one can take them away from me.

Argento also used his time on the program to ask to be reinstated on Factor X Italy as a judge. "My children are proud of me," she said, before referring to petitions in Italy supporting her return to the series of competitions. "Italy wants me and I did not do anything of which I am accused." Call to Sky Italia's C.E.O. Andrea Zappia, Argento said the dismissal was an "absolute mistake".

At Bennett's interview, conducted last week by an English translator, the actor and musician said that he initially thought that Argento's kisses were his way of "testifying" of his affection ". In front of an Italian audience, Bennett failed several times during the interview, saying at one point: "It's hard for me to talk about this in front of strangers." At another point in the sequence, he said that he did not feel comfortable talking while Argento photos were displayed on the stage: "It's a bit hard to focus, I'm not going to not lie.