While Emmanuel Macron celebrated his investiture at the Elysee Palace on May 7, 2022, Mathieu Gallet made revelations about the supposed relationship he would have had with the head of state in the past. Interviewed by The Parisianthe former director of Radio France, in full promotion of his work Power games (Bouquins Éditions, 21.50 euros, released on May 12), revealed that he had first been hurt by the words of the president who had mentioned their alleged hidden affair during a political meeting in 2017. As a reminder, these rumors had come out when Emmanuel Macron was a candidate for the movement Working ! for the presidential election. “I learned about it on Twitter. On Form, I’m sorry he didn’t let me know. It would have been more elegant of him. It’s a matter of respect“, he confided.
Understanding, he nevertheless recognizes the need for Emmanuel Macron to silence these rumors which could tarnish the image of his relationship with Brigitte. “It was good that he silenced the rumor, especially with humor. The target was him. I was just a tool to weaken her, when we were never close” he explained, adding that he absolutely found “disgusting to tell lies to smear a man, a couple.”
Some still believe
Victim of threats at the time, Mathieu Gallet even explains that his grandmother had received emails telling him that compromising photos would soon come out. Finally, Emmanuel Macron had managed to defuse the situation and to “deflate“the case even if”some still believe” according to him. “I needed my turn to dismantle this rumor. In my opinion, it came from the Socialists, his own grassroots political family.“adds the French businessman.
As a reminder, Emmanuel Macron had mentioned the rumors concerning his romance with Mathieu Gallet in a humorous tone. “To put the foot in the dish, if in the dinners in town, if in the email loops, you are told that I have a double life with Mathieu Gallet or whoever it is, it is my hologram which suddenly escaped me but it can’t be me!“he said, referring to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose meeting in Lyon had been split live in Paris thanks to a hologram.
“First, it’s unpleasant for Brigitte. I reassure you, as she shares everything in my life, from evening to morning, she simply wonders how physically I could. (…) Fortunately, I never paid her for this“, he also explained, this time referring to François Fillon, whose wife Pénélope was suspected of being paid for fictitious jobs.