In the columns of Nous deux, Macha Méril spoke in all sincerity about her relationship with Stéphane Freiss, 20 years her junior.
During her life, Macha Méril experienced many love stories. While she was in a relationship with Michel Legrand at the end of the latter’s life, the 83-year-old actress also had a relationship with Stéphane Freiss, 20 years her junior. At the time, she was 43 years old. The age difference between the actress and the French actor has been widely criticized. This Monday, March 11, Machal Méril spoke about the attacks suffered during her love story in the columns of Nous deux: “It was terrible, people made fun of me! It could be very malicious, like: ‘He’s sleeping with his mother!’, but I didn’t care. And twenty years later, we said the same thing about Emmanuel Macron!” she explained.
While they “much loved”Macha Méril wanted to have a child with the actor but did not succeed: “Even though I knew he would leave me, I tried to circumvent fate by wanting to have a child with him through IVF. Unfortunately, it didn’t work, because the late and poorly done abortion that What I suffered at 16 and a half years old made me permanently sterile.”, she lamented. The one who suffered from not having become a mother, tried to console herself in other ways: “I know that I will always have a place in Stéphane’s heart, if only for having embodied in his eyes a certain idea of woman, not defeated, not slave, not submissive”, she explained.
Macha Méril: “I was his pygmalion”
In December 2022, Macha Méril had already mentioned her passionate relationship with Stéphane Freiss. “I took this crush that presented itself to me in defiance of all rationality, without analyzing it excessively. I had learned not to fear tomorrow or the lack of it. Generally speaking, in love, you have to free yourself from fear.”, she specified in the Gala columns. And to continue in an interview with Paris Match: “I was his pygmalion. I introduced him to literature, to cinema, to fantasy. To life! It lasted seven, eight years. There too, there was pressure from his mother. My problem this time was that I wasn’t Jewish.”