Since the death of Marie Trintignant, which occurred on August 1, 2003, Nadine continues to suffer enormously from the loss of her daughter. She confides in the pages of the magazine Gala, returning in particular to the couple that she formed for a long time with Jean-Louis Trintignant. Early in their relationship, she had become pregnant but chose to have an abortion. Then, during her second pregnancy, she finally kept her baby. Moving memories, of a mother still in mourning.
Nadine Trintignant, now 87, clings to the members of her clan, her son Vincent and her grandchildren, to experience her impossible mourning. It must be said that Marie Trintignant, who died at only 41 years old, had been for the director a child with a particular history. “I got pregnant for the first time before Marie. It was the first months of our history. Jean-Louis was doing his military service, I was an assistant editor (…) So when it happened, I was happy. When Jean-Louis saw me happy like that, he said to me: ‘We keep it then?’ There, I answered him: ‘We don’t have a penny, we live in a room, we leave early in the morning and we come back late at night, what would we do with a baby? But I’m happy because I was afraid of not being able to have children’“, she recalled.
Nadine Trintignant had then borrowed money from Françoise Sagan to go and have an abortion in Geneva, Switzerland, for fear that “abyss“Her body in France, at a time when this kind of operation was done in calamitous conditions. Subsequently, life then spoiled her with another baby…”With Jean-Louis, we continued to live together (…) and I got pregnant again and, at that moment, in a slightly twisted way, I thought: ‘If Jean-Louis tells me that he doesn’t want to have a child, I’m going to blame him, I’m going to be unhappy and I will stop loving her.’ Just in case, I made an appointment with the Swiss gynecologist who had already aborted me and I went on vacation to Ramatuelle with Jean-Louis. And there, on the beach, he said to me one day: ‘What would be good now is for us to have a child.’ So I tell him the good news, that we were going to have one in seven months! I was overjoyed“, she added.
Interview to find in Galaedition of January 20, 2022.