Those close to Jean-Marie Le Pen gathered this Saturday, January 11 at La Trinité-sur-Mer to say goodbye to , on January 7. The united clan was there, dignified, including Pierrette Le Pen, the mother of the deceased’s daughters despite her complicated past within the clan.
Pierrette Lalanne met the politician in 1958, during a gala evening and it was in 1960 that they married. From their union three daughters were born: Marie-Caroline, Yann and Marine. Everything changed in the 1980s. In 1984, Pierrette left the family home to follow the biographer Jean Marcilly. During the divorce proceedings, she does not receive alimony to care for their daughters. “If she needs money, she just has to do housework“, confides Jean-Marie Le Pen to the magazine His. In 1987, Pierrette Le Pen appeared on the front page of the magazine Playboy. “It’s the snub of a French woman finally free at the bully of the French first“, she then declared in the press.
Pierrette Le Pen absent for 15 years
The relationships between Pierrette and her children were very marked by this period: “Marine Le Pen does not go to see her mother for 15 years. she is 14 years old when she leaves them, you can imagine the trauma that it can be for a teenager and then for the woman who is building herself at that momentto”, recounted Olivier Beaumont, senior political reporter at Parisian.
A Paris Matchthe couple’s daughters speak out and Marine then has this strong sentence as RTL reminds us: “A mother is a secret garden, she is not a public dump.” “Nobody saw it coming. There is one who had been warned a little before, it was Marie-Caroline, the eldest, since Pierrette had spoken to her oldest daughter, a few months earlier, about her misfortune in this house. [de , ndlr]. She felt abandoned, neglected and there was a particularity in this house too, that is to say that the mixture of genres was permanent between personal life and political life“, says Olivier Beaumont, author of Montretout’s hell.
Marine Le Pen and her mother reconciled
Years passed and things calmed down. During his appearance on the show An intimate ambitionMarine Le Pen returned to this passage in her life and told the happy epilogue of this story. But before, it was who spoke out and said the following: “I came back and Jean-Marie said to me ‘well listen, you’re at home here.’ I too have forgiven him. I settled there [à Montretout, ndlr]. And then we returned to normal life. Jean-Marie and I see each other often, there are no problems. They have a father, a mother. He is a great-grandfather. It’s family.” And Marine Le Pen then added: “We don’t see many ex-spouses living in the same space after such violent breakups..” Marine Le Pen replied: “But they are both original. They are extraordinary parents. An extraordinary life. But that’s how it is, that’s what built me. When we love ourselves, we are sometimes able to forgive ourselves. (…) They forgave each other because I think that yes, there is love between them, if only because they have three children together. That they lived together for twenty-five years. But we also forgave a mother who had left. We hurt ourselves a lot with grudges.“
