In a relationship for a few years with Geraldine Nakachewhom he married in 2009, but from whom he has been divorced since 2011, Manu Payet could very well have lived his American dream… But the star he coveted decided otherwise! The actor and comedian who has been in a relationship for ten years with an interior designer with whom he became a father in January 2017 of a daughter named Jonie was the guest of Bertrand Chameroy this Friday January 5, 2024 on France 2, for the first of Bertrand is not sleepy. The opportunity for the fifty-year-old to make unprecedented revelations about the rake that a very famous American actress put on him a few years ago, even though the latter had been his idol since he had seen her play with Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally. Yes, it is indeed… Meg Ryan !
On the sidelines of the Cannes festival, it’s in a prestigious hotel in the city of cinema that Manu Payet had the chance to meet the American diva. Problem: when he approached her, and tried to initiate a discussion with her, Meg Ryan sharply rebuffed him, and quickly and abruptly ended the interview, refusing even to shake his hand. “I’m crazy about her, I find her sublime (…) And I meet her, as she is about to take the elevator (…) I start, hoping that something happens, that the magic of cinema works (…) He there were no special effects, the magic did not work” explains the actor in front of Christophe Willem, Isabelle Nanty and François Berléand.
“I don’t want to touch you!”
And to continue, recounting the details of his big rake: “I hold out my hand to him and say: Anyway, congratulations for everything you do.“. But the star’s response also seen in Top Gun And Sleepless nights in Seattle was very violent: “I don’t want to touch you!” A brutal refusal to accept, in front of the companion of the time of Manu Payet, who most likely must have been over the moon! The first of Bertrand is not sleepy brought together 813,000 viewers for 7.4% of the public and only 3% of housewives. In prime-time, Gil Alma helped Bertrand Chameroy, since his detective series Caesar Wagner achieved a big audience hit with 4.7 million fans for 25% of the public, thus soundly beating the new TF1 doc devoted to The Unknowns.