Scandal in France: First Lady Brigitte Macron pushed the president?
27 may 2025 в 18:13
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, First Lady Brigitte Macron, became global news in May 2025 when a video of their plane landing went viral. After they landed in Vietnam, Emmanuel was seen at the door of the plane. Suddenly, hands resembling Brigitte’s hands reached out and forcefully pushed Emmanuel’s face.
Naturally, the internet exploded with this moment, and everyone is asking the same question: did Brigitte really push Emmanuel? Find out what he said about it below.
Brigitte is the First Lady of France. She comes from the Trogneux family, which owns the Trogneux chocolate factory in its fifth generation. It was founded in the late 1800s. Brigitte is the youngest of six children.
Before meeting Emmanuel, Brigitte worked as a teacher. She taught literature at the Lucie-Berger college in Strasbourg.
Brigitte is now 72 years old, almost 25 years older than Emmanuel. The French president at the time of May 2025 was 47 years old.
Emmanuel did not confirm whether Brigitte actually hit him in the face, but he described their interaction as playful and criticized the public for turning it into a scandal. According to CNN, Emmanuel spoke with journalists in Hanoi and confessed, «There is a video where I joke and tease my wife, and suddenly it becomes a kind of geoplanetary catastrophe, with people even inventing theories to explain it».
«The videos are all real, and yes, sometimes people fake them, but people attribute all sorts of nonsense to them», - Emmanuel concluded.
Emmanuel and Brigitte have been married since 2007. They have a twenty-year age gap, which has caused controversy. Emmanuel was 15 when he met the then 39-year-old Brigitte, when she was his teacher in high school in Amiens. The age of consent in France is 15.
After Emmanuel and Brigitte entered into a romantic relationship, his parents tried to separate them because of concerns about the age difference. So they sent Emmanuel to Paris to finish his final year of school. Eventually, he and Brigitte met again after his graduation.
No, Emmanuel and Brigitte do not have their own children. However, Brigitte has three children from a previous marriage
Naturally, the internet exploded with this moment, and everyone is asking the same question: did Brigitte really push Emmanuel? Find out what he said about it below.
Brigitte is the First Lady of France. She comes from the Trogneux family, which owns the Trogneux chocolate factory in its fifth generation. It was founded in the late 1800s. Brigitte is the youngest of six children.
Before meeting Emmanuel, Brigitte worked as a teacher. She taught literature at the Lucie-Berger college in Strasbourg.
Brigitte is now 72 years old, almost 25 years older than Emmanuel. The French president at the time of May 2025 was 47 years old.
Emmanuel did not confirm whether Brigitte actually hit him in the face, but he described their interaction as playful and criticized the public for turning it into a scandal. According to CNN, Emmanuel spoke with journalists in Hanoi and confessed, «There is a video where I joke and tease my wife, and suddenly it becomes a kind of geoplanetary catastrophe, with people even inventing theories to explain it».
«The videos are all real, and yes, sometimes people fake them, but people attribute all sorts of nonsense to them», - Emmanuel concluded.
Emmanuel and Brigitte have been married since 2007. They have a twenty-year age gap, which has caused controversy. Emmanuel was 15 when he met the then 39-year-old Brigitte, when she was his teacher in high school in Amiens. The age of consent in France is 15.
After Emmanuel and Brigitte entered into a romantic relationship, his parents tried to separate them because of concerns about the age difference. So they sent Emmanuel to Paris to finish his final year of school. Eventually, he and Brigitte met again after his graduation.
No, Emmanuel and Brigitte do not have their own children. However, Brigitte has three children from a previous marriage
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