Valérie Bonneton, who leaves 'In search of eternal youth' in the documentary broadcast on M6 this October 13 at 9:10 p.m., has lived thirteen years of love with François Cluzet. How did they announce their separation to their children? Who did they remake their life with?

Valerie Bonnet , which you can find in the documentary In search of eternal youth on M6 this October 13, 2022 at 9:10 p.m. with Alfred de Montesquiou, had a 13-year love affair with the actor François Cluzet . The two actors had met in 1997 on the set of the film The way is clear , directed by Stéphane Clavier, and became parents of two children, Joseph, 21, and Marguerite, 16. In 2010, the actors shot The Little Handkerchiefs. This is the last film in which they played as a couple. After this shoot, Valerie Bonneton and Francois Cluzet separated themselves. And we had to find the art and the way to announce this heavy decision to their children, who were still small at the time.

Valérie Bonneton and Cluzet: how they announced their separation

' With Francois, we thought for whole evenings how we were going to announce things to them . What words to use, how to tell them without hurting them. We reflected calmly and wisely, we did things well ', confided Valérie Bonneton in 2012 to Paris Match . Since then, the former lovebirds have rebuilt their lives, each on their own. François Cluzet is in a relationship with Narjiss Slaoui-Falcoz , former communication director of the InterContinental Carlton Cannes hotel. As for Valérie Bonneton, she make perfect love with Edouard , a man with whom she had already had a romance in her youth.

Valérie Bonneton has 'transformed everything' for her son

The actress has a particularly strong bond with her son Joseph , now 21 years old. And for good reason, this one has been reached of one leukemia at only 4 years old. Guest on the set of C to you on September 13, the actress watched a previous passage in the France 5 program, which dates from 2015, and in which she had been overwhelmed by emotion when she mentioned her son. Shocked by this sequence, Valérie Bonneton commented: ' It's impossible to talk about that '. It is in his work, mom to me , released on September 14, that she allows herself to evoke the disease of her son, born of her former love with actor François Cluzet .

When her child had to fight leukemia, the actress did everything to make her fight sweeter and told him ' to believe that everything was happy '.' I did everything to transform everything, because at 4 years old, in the eyes of parents, children believe everything, at that age “, entrusted the actress of 52 years, in C to you . The ex-companion of François Cluzet was particularly inspired by the film Life is Beautiful , by Roberto Benigni, in which a father deported to a German concentration camp with his son, during the Second World War, had made him believe that he was in a life-size game for his birthday.

Valérie Bonneton: Her son has 'no bad memories'

Previously, Valérie Bonneton had already confided in her son's illness , au mike of RTL. ' I had work offers, but I turned them down, because there was no way I wasn't spending all my time with him. And for a long time I wanted to tell it, because I did everything to make it ' Life is good in the hospital “, she had explained. And to specify: “ And today my boy is 21, he has no bad memories. He loves people, because there were always lots of people coming: nurses, doctors, etc. He loves doctors. It's always very moving... And I wanted to tell it '.

From her former romance with François Cluzet, Valérie Bonneton also gave birth to a daughter, Marguerite, now 16 years old. ' I love being in contact with them, observing them. They are pure, honest, love and friendship fall on them without their expecting it, without asking themselves any questions. “, she confided.

Source journaldesfemmes.fr