Catherine Deneuve walked back a controversial letter signed by 100 French women that disavowed the #MeToo movement as a "witch hunt."
In the second letter, published Sunday in Liberation, Deneuve apologized to "all victims of odious acts who may have felt offended."
The Jan. 9 letter, published in Le Monde, accused Hollywood and other industries of "expeditious justice" that remove a man's "freedom to importune."
Deneuve reiterated her position against people who feel "they have the right to judge, to arbitrate, to condemn."
"A time where simple denunciations on social media generate punishment, resignation and sometimes, and often, lynching by the media... I don't excuse anything," she wrote.
Deneuve also criticized fellow signee Brigitte Lahaie, a former porn star-turned-radio host, who said last week that women can enjoy being raped.
But she doubled down on the original letter's complaints that men were being punished "without any other form of trial."
"I do not excuse anything, (but) I do not decide on the guilt of these men because I am not qualified to. And few are," she wrote.
