A meeting worthy of a film. While he was on the train, Hugues Aufray meets for the first time Muriel Mégevand, beautiful brunette with black eyes. Surprised to meet the singer, she takes her courage in both hands and asks him for an autograph, laughing at the inquisitive looks of the travelers around her. Captivated by the elegance and presence of this young woman, Hugues Aufray begins the conversation without knowing that he has just met the future woman of his life.
Interviewed by Michel Drucker in April 2022, the 93-year-old singer said: “I was in the TGV and I saw this young girl. She asked me for an autograph. Seeing her, I asked her if she made movies and she said ‘No’“. Troubled and bewitched by this woman from Savoy, he offers to help her in her career. Three years later, she moves to Paris. “She came and then she stayed“, he had explained.
“He’s a wonderful man. He is very positive all the time, in everything he does. He already painted and sculpted me“, had confided Muriel, guest in the same program. In love, she had added: “In fact, I’ve never been bored with Hugues, I’ve known him since 1995 and I’ve never been bored with you.”
Married to Hélène Faure since 1951, Hugues Aufray lost the mother of his children on October 6th. Deceased”in their property of Orgnac-l’Aven in Ardèche“, the mother of Marie (born in 1958) and Charlotte (born in 1961) was the wife of Hugues Aufray until his last breath even though they no longer shared their lives with each other. “I’m still married to the woman I knew when I was 20. She can’t follow me. I am a normal man, with an important professional activity and therefore, it is true, I have a young companionhe confided to the Swiss daily The morning in 2015. I’m not lying to either of them. I have peace of mind.“
The singer subsequently denied being polygamous in January 2021: “With this open letter, I want to restore the truth, I am not polygamous and I live with Murielle which I am in love with even though I have kept very good relations with my family.”