Five years ago, in 2017, Emmanuel Macron was already in the presidential campaign. During this race to access the Elysée, rumors of homosexuality concerning him had arisen. The main interested party had denied them with humor. But his wife, Brigitte Macron had been “shocked”.
In five years of presence at the Élysée, the French ended up accepting the presidential couple formed by Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, despite the age difference. This relationship between the youngest President of the Republic and his former teacher, however, clashed at the start. The Head of State and the First are often the victims of rumours. And it started long before arriving at the palace. In the spring of 2016, a year before the election, a persistent false rumor on social networks claimed that Emmanuel Macron was gay. A rumor denied by his collaborator at the time, Sylvain Fort. A man present “20h out of 24”.
“I was in Montparnasse, my office was glued to the wall of Emmanuel Macron’s office. (…) I find myself in a Parisian dinner and someone says: ‘Olala, the twinks are parading at Tour Montparnasse!’ I’m not saying much, but I see the thing starting to spin a bit. So I say: ‘Listen, I haven’t seen twinks. Or else the twink, it’s me’. But do I have a pussy face?”had told Emmanuel Macron’s adviser in the documentary In the hell of presidential campaigns broadcast on BFM TV in January 2022. In this program, journalist Nicolas Prissette revealed that Brigitte Macron even received phone calls telling her: “I know that your husband is currently with a man in such a place”. What was “completely wrong”but disturbing for the then-future First Lady.
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Brigitte Macron “shocked and sad“
“You realize what they dare to say ? We know well that nothing will be spared us! Even that. I’m shocked and sad to hear that, but we will skip“, she would then have told the senator and support of her husband François Patriat, interviewed in the documentary of BFM TV. For his part, her husband manages to stifle the crazy rumor with a touch of humor. While some wrongly lent him an affair with Mathieu Gallet, at the time boss of Radio France. A man that he would have seen only three times and that he would not even dare to use familiarity with, according to Nicolas Prissette. “A Parisian rumor that has become an offensive weapon”according to Sylvain Fort. Emmanuel Macron finally had “burst the abscess” on February 6, 2017 during a speech at the Bobino theater in Paris.
He had replied to those who mentioned his “hidden lives” than “it’s unpleasant for Brigitte”. “But I reassure you. As she shares everything in my life, from evening to morning, she just wonders how physically I could do“he had declared in front of a hilarious room. “If in the dinners in town, if in the mail loops, you are told that I have a double life with Mathieu Gallet or whoever it is, it is that it’s my hologram that suddenly escaped mebut it can’t be me”, had launched Emmanuel Macron with humor. But behind the scenes, it did not make his wife Brigitte laugh at all. It even hurt her.
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