Last companion of Gaspard Ulliel, Gaëlle Pietri reveals the last terrible SMS that she sent to the actor before his death. We tell you everything here!
“I have always written, and after Gaspard’s death I needed to lay down my pains and my sufferings. It was a way to get through the grief. I needed to immerse myself in our memories, to fix an image of Gaspard”entrusts Gaelle Pietri in interview with The Parisian. The model pays a last tribute to the actor who died in January 2022 in a poignant book, Time to say goodbye, published by Grasset editions. “It is for him that she tells. The first moments shared, love, separation, pain and anger in the face of loss, fragments of life in which he can find his father whenever he wants.indicates the back cover of the book. Gaëlle Pietri gives us her first story, a poignant letter of implacable honesty on the most unspeakable grief and redemption through writing.” A painful story lined witha love letter that she wishes to leave to her son, Orso, “when he’s older”.
At the time of the accident, Gaëlle Pietri is suddenly taken “stomach pains of rare violence”. She has just picked up her son from school. The mother and her child went straight home. “As soon as I arrived, I collapsed in the bathroom. I have never had such a stomach ache in all my life, I felt like I had been stabbed”, remembers the mother of Orso. As the pain passes, a friend of Gaspard ulliel call him to inform him of a “serious accident”. Later, Gaëlle Pietri will organ donation of his former companion, “the only thing to do”, according to her. Evidence motivated by the last terrible text that she sent him about a friend “whose 4-year-old son with leukemia needed a platelet donation”.
How is the son of Gaspard Ulliel and Gaëlle Pietri?
Difficult to find the right words to explain the death of the father to a child. For Gaelle Pietri, “we do as we can”even if it means “in two times”. Almost a year and a half after the tragedy, little Orso is doing much better. “The first year was extremely complicated, he was very angry. We had to go all those first times without her father : Christmas, his birthday, back to school… For three months, he has been calmer and maybe me too”explains his mother. The son of Gaspard ulliel aspires to become an actor and to realize “adventure movies… but in which we don’t kiss girls”.