Bernadette Chirac is discreet. Since the death of Jacques Chirac on September 26, 2019, there has been little news about the former first lady. On the occasion of his appearance on the Jacques Sanchez show What have they become ?, sure Non Stop People, Agnès Vincent-Deray confided in the state of health of her friend, whom she can no longer visit. "I have news from her. Unfortunately, I don't see her anymore becauseshe is not at her best. But it does not say that after this Covid episode, I will not see her again ", launched the widow of director Jacques Deray.
Asked about the health of the one to whom she devoted a portrait on France 3 in the early 2000s, however, Agnès Vincent-Deray estimated "thatshe is rather better". Before recalling that the widow of Jacques Chirac knew "two big shocks in his life". Among them, the death "Of the president" after several years punctuated by illness and memory loss and that of his daughter Laurence. Suffering from anorexia, the eldest of the tribe passed away at the age of 58 from heart failure. "It's a lot for one woman", estimated the former member of the CSA.
Bernadette Chirac "not the woman we used to know "
A few days after the death of the former head of state, our colleagues from Parisian reported: "She's not the woman we once knew. Those familiar with the area describe her mute, taking refuge in the peace of silence, for nearly six months ". Installed in the apartment rue de Tournon in Paris (6th district), where Jacques Chirac lived his last days, the former president of the Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux can count on the support of her daughter Claude Chirac and her grandson. son, Martin Rey-Chirac.
Confined with her grandmother, the 24-year-old student had given her news to our colleagues in Gala : "The whole family is doing well, including my grandmother who is also confined and warm ". As for his absence in the media, Erwan L'Éléouet, author of Bernadette Chirac, the secrets of a conquest (Fayard, 2019) had in his book: "This woman is probably upset, we can sense the family's desire to spare them public representations, to increase the number of conversations: his daughter Claude probably wishes to preserve the privacy and integrity of her mother".
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