Married for thirty-four years to Michel Elmosnino, did Marie Myriam know another man before saying ‘yes’ to the artistic director at Polydor? Answer below…
In 1977, Marie Myriam won the Eurovision Song Contest. A few weeks after her victory, the singer began a love affair with Patrick Sébastien. If the duo was in a relationship for two years, the pretty blonde had wanted to put an end to their relationship when she learned that the famous host had been unfaithful to her. While they were engaged, Marie Myriam found it increasingly difficult to bear the possessiveness of her companion. In her autobiography, evoking a night when after a gala, Patrick Sébastien had rushed into her hotel room and had her door opened in the middle of the night, she had revealed: “He was convinced that I was not alone. I decided then it was over, I flushed my engagement ring down the toilet.“
In 2017, it is in the columns ofParis here that Marie Myriam had made many confidences about her past relationship with Patrick Sébastien. “I was 20, he was 24. We had two wonderful years together. Patrick was my first big love. I adored his family and I often looked after his son Sébastien who unfortunately died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 19. I loved him very much, this little“, she confided, before adding: “Well-meaning people came to tell me that Patrick was cheating on me. However, I was pregnant with him at that time. The decision to have an abortion was one of the worst of my life. Patrick, who wanted to keep the child, tried to kill himself when I told him that I was leaving him. It was terrible, but I didn’t want that life, let alone a child who didn’t have a dad. However, since I was little, I dreamed of becoming a mother…“
A painful separation
If Marie Myriam made the choice to leave Patrick Sébastien, their breakup was very difficult for her. For Paris hereshe had indeed revealed:Our separation was very painful for both him and me. At the end of our story, he gave me a lot of fits of jealousy, I couldn’t stand it.” Married to Michel Elmosnino, her story with the host continued to haunt her. “It took me a very long time to get over it, to the point that, even later, with Michel, I couldn’t get pregnant. And I cried as soon as I came across a round belly. I was traumatized“, she had revealed. Today, the two stars are friends and get along wonderfully. “There is a real family bond between us and we see each other very often.“, assured Marie Myriam.
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