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It took more than ten years in Valérie Trierweiler to confirm her forgiveness to François Hollande. A decade to accept the deception of the former President of the Republic and move on. In an interview recently granted, the former “first girlfriend” returns to this forgiveness that she gives to her ex, but still not to other actors in the case who had triggered the release of her book thank you for this moment.
Valérie Trierweiler: she forgives François Hollande, but not everyone
That it seems far away, this January 25, 2014. A Saturday like any other, if not this press release from the Elysée, signed, in which the President of the Republic formalized with the journalist. A separation following the revelations of the weekly Closerwhich proved – – the infidelity of François Hollande, Surprised delivering croissants and kisses To a certain, installed in an apartment not far from the Élysée. A crime of lèse majesté that Valérie Trierweiler exorci by leaving a few months later: Thank you for this moment.
Between François Hollande and Valérie Trierweiler when they arrived under the gold of the Republic. In an interview with the magazine ELLEthe ex-journalist of Paris Match did not hide his love for the boss of the Socialist Party. “It is a bond that has turned into love at first sight, she remembered. We suddenly realized, in 2005, that we were totally in love with each other … We lived moments of intense happiness, both, alone, together, at the time of its crossing of the desert. Today we must prolong this honeymoon in another way, getting used to not seeing yourself as much (…) It’s up to me to find my place. “ Two years after these pretty declarations, his place was obviously no longer alongside François Hollande…
Valérie Trierweiler took a long time to forgive François Hollande’s infidelity
Her friends, after this ultra-violent breakup, Valérie Trierweiler could count them on the fingers one -handed. In 2017, with a Swiss daily newspaper The morningthe member of Big heads answered cash to the question: “Who are his real friends?” : “Those who did not turn my back in 2014. I lost a number of it, they preferred to stay on the side of power. It was painful.”
When he released his book, Thank you for this moment (to which François Hollande had), Valérie Trierweiler was embarking on an extraordinary promotion across the Channel. The opportunity for the flouted lover to deliver her truth about this breakdown made public in spite of herself. She swore him to whoever wanted to hear him: her book was not there to destroy François Hollande, But to help her rebuild himself. “I haven’t even seen all the photos (closerEditor’s note) encoreShe admitted in 2014 to a BBC journalist. I can’t see them. I had heard rumors, but I didn’t believe it. “ And yet …
June 2017, three years after the breakup, it was a Sereine Trierweiler Valérie who admitted to Parisian, today in Francehaving turned the Hollande page. A few days after revealing on the set of The new edition (C8) discreet reunion with the ex-head of state, the pen of Paris Match Added in the columns of the national daily: “Yes, I forgive François Hollande. The tests, it forges you. We look to the future, especially when time passes. And then, he intervened so that my friend Frédéric was saved (Frédéric Gerschel, journalist at Parisian-today in Francewho worked with her at Paris MatchEditor’s note) After his accident in Iraq. I am extremely grateful to him. “
Valérie Trierweiler has forgiven François Hollande, but not others
Latest evidence of this appeasement and a final forgiveness for François Hollande: the interview that Valérie Trierweiler granted at the start of this year 2025 to The East the day. Returning to the 700,000 copies sold from Thank you for this momentthe former declares: “I felt misunderstood, I wrote to explain myself, it did not fully make the effect. ‘I forgiven François Hollande, we even posed for a photo together last November at the Brive Book Fair. or almost.”
Why, for whom is this “presque” At the end of the sentence? Valérie de Senneville (the ex-wife of Michel Sapin, minister under the Holland era), that Léonard Trierweiler’s mother, betrayed by the latter, had “slapped, scratched and pulled the hair” (Revelations of Parisianpublished on October 10, 2014), during an evening watered in the capital? Or even for these other people, if present when it was about to integrate the Élysée, who no longer won their phone once the deception revealed? No. With The East the dayValérie Trierweiler concedes that if she has forgiven François Hollande, others, in connection with the case in question, will not be entitled to the same treatment. “There are two or three journalists who have come down to me, to whom I do not forgive”she said.
At just sixty years old (this February 16, 2025 is her sixtieth anniversary), Valérie Trierweiler knows what is good for her and seems well decided to no longer leave room for toxic characters in her life. A life that would no longer be solo, according to the main interested party …
