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It was in 2019 that Dominique Lagrou-Sempère’s life was turned upside down. Claude Sempere, her husband and father of her two children, died following a painful illness. The journalist must then mourn and try to stay strong for Estaban and Mathilda. In an interview with Gala, she talks about the loss of her husband and talks about her new companion, Jeff.
“I’m still married to Claude”: Dominique Lagrou-Sempère happy with Jeff, her new companion, and ready to move forward?
as a result of mesothelioma, an aggressive form of pleural cancer. He had a long career within France Télévisions, notably as a senior reporter for the show “Special Envoy” on France 2. Much appreciated, his death was widely felt in the journalistic community in France. He formed an accomplice couple with Dominique Lagrou-Sempère, emblematic figure of the show “The 1 p.m.” of TF1, where for many years. Widow and mother of Mathilda and Esteban, she had to mourn her previous lifean experience she shared publicly in her book “After the storm”. She spoke about the painful moments and unfortunately the time to say goodbye… In this work, she also returned to the important role of her children who saved her from sinking and encouraged her to start a new life with a other man than their father. “Just as we do not choose to die, we do not choose to love. Fortunately I loved and love passionately“she confided in November 2021 on France Inter.
On the occasion of the sad fifth anniversary of the death of her husband, Dominique Lagrou-Sempère gave an interview to our colleagues at the magazine Gala. “I need to share the dates of Claude’s birthday and death to anchor the absence in time and in life. . It’s dizzying to think that for five years, my children have no longer seen their dad, that he is no longer in this house. And at the same time, I feel like it was yesterday.”she admitted. On her companion about whom she does not give many details, she confided that she was “a happy woman”. “Life gave me He arrived at a moment where I was able to offer him a place at my side”explained the journalist. What if she thinks about remarrying one day? Negative. “I’m still married to Claude (she looks at her wedding ring, editor’s note). With Jeff, we’re like the fingers of a hand. With each other’s paths. And then, I understood that death can take away a marriage. There we are in life”she concluded on this point.
Dominique Lagrou-Sempère, saved by her children
Dominique Lagrou-Sempère also spoke of her way of ensuring that her late husband was not forgotten. “We have the gifts left by his work, his reporting, his voice…. We met in 1998, illness entered our lives, then death decided to take us away. There are things you can’t fight against. You can position yourself as a victim, it’s a phase of mourning that I went through. Today, the energy that I want to put into my life is rich in this past, in this love.”detailed Esteban’s mother who assures that she owes a lot to her two children.
Submerged “by sadness, by pain” at the time of her husband’s death, that she would not be able to overcome this difficult ordeal. “My children saved my life”she assured. And to explain: “They could not suffer the double punishment of having a father gone and a mother failing. They made me understand that I had more things to do in life only in death”. “Happy” to see her two children grow up, the journalist confides that she can only be admiring “of their resilience, of their strength”. “Of this trio that we managed to build in love, in fact”she finished.
