OWNBig crime, big means… Julie Gayet had to improvise a whole strategy to face the tsunami that hit her in January 2014: this is the time the magazine Closer published on the front page photos of François Hollande joining the actress on a scooter, revealing the secret love of the President of the Republic. A real cluster bomb that rocked the presidency and forced François Hollande to abandon journalist Valérie Trierweiler, his partner at the time.
As for Julie Gayet, who at that time was little known to the public, clearly became the new target of the paparazzi. A very complicated period that he returns to in the show We have something new on Novo19. “I was trapped at home with a wall of paparazzi at the end of my street,” she said. My family and friends started to get really worried because I wouldn’t leave the house anymore. I remained locked up for two months…” A real confinement that will end thanks to an “exfiltration” operation carried out in complete secrecy.
“Bad thriller”
“It was Benjamin Biolay who had the idea for me to come and join him in the recording studio in Belgium, where the Rolling Stones recorded, so it was a real bunker. He said to me: ‘At least you can breathe, get out of your house!” So we arranged my escape…”
The idea was to divert attention from the paparazzi who were camping outside her door. “I had a friend who came with a hat and a friend, and I dressed like him, with this hat. He dressed like me. He took a coat, he pretended to leave the house…” Without being seen or recognized, the actress then immediately left for Belgium. “I feel like I’m watching a bad thriller. »
At the location, Julie Gayet could breathe a sigh of relief even though she was far from her presidential lover. And it was with that in mind that he decided to record a song from the seventies, “Au pays de ton corps”, by Catherine Le Forestier. Which he burned on a CD and sent with a small note to François Hollande, who piously kept this declaration of love. There was no hesitation for Julie Gayet to release the song to the general public: there were only two versions, one for her husband and the other kept by Benjamin Biolay “somewhere in a safe on a hard drive”, the actress admitted.
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Julie Gayet doesn’t stop there: she continues Closer for invasion of privacy and received damages of 15,000 euros, saying that he was completely “hounded” by the revelations of this presidential love story. Meanwhile, François Hollande expressed his “total anger” following the newspaper’s publication.
As time went by, the pressure subsided and the couple succumbed, like many couples, to the sirens of celebrity magazines… Last June, the two opened the doors of their Corrèze home, located at the top of Tulle, to journalists from Paris Match.
