"This is the woman I believed I could have a great heterosexual love affair with. With her, I came to the end of the adventure."It is in these terms that Pierre Palmade spoke of his love affair with Véronique Sanson, during a documentary that Mireille Dumas had devoted to their couple in 2015, in Monday in stories, on France 3. A beautiful story that begins with a beautiful friendship. They are part of the same group of friends and spend evenings together, often well watered: Véronique Sanson, Pierre Palmade, Catherine Lara, Muriel Robin … From friendship to love, there is only one steps, that Véronique Sanson and Pierre Palmade cross by getting married, on June 11, 1995, in Triel-sur-Seine, in the Paris region. She is 46 and he is 27. Almost twenty years separate them. Very quickly, this improbable couple gets people talking. Their story is commented on.
In 2016, the singer, who has just battled cancer, told Gala what this marriage meant to her: "With Pierre Palmade, we loved each other so much that we chose to get married in church. We wanted our love to be sanctified, true. But people didn't get it. We were made fun of. "Yet the love is there."I love humor. If I got married to Pierre Palmade, it was not for nothing. Not only did he make me laugh, but I made him laugh too. It's still important " she told Release in 2016. Violaine Sanson, Véronique's older sister, recalls the memories of this marriage in the Sunday newspaper April 22: "Véro's marriage to Pierre Palmade surprised many people in 1995. But she was in love and he was too. (…) Véro had a midinette trip, with a beautiful church wedding in a beautiful pink dress."
⋙ Véronique Sanson says she almost died at 14: "I even received extreme unction"
The marriage lasts six years. The couple separates, Pierre Palmade reveals his homosexuality a few years later. Divorce devastated the singer. "I was afraid of losing her. I really thought she was going to kill herself. This was the time when she also found out that the people she worked with had betrayed her"continues Violaine in the newspaper. Since then, the eldest has become the manager of her younger daughter:"I am her Pierre Berger, she is my Yves Saint-Laurent. She has the talent, I'm the cement mixer. "Proof that the duo works? The beautiful longevity of Véronique Sanson's career with unmistakable success. She will celebrate her 70th birthday, this April 24, on the stage of the Palais des Sports, as she had promised when she was battling cancer. Hats off.
To read alsoi: Pierre Palmade cleared of rape accusations wants to "find" his humor