Her story with Patrick Bruel, Amanda Sthers would probably have written a few more pages. In 2007, after three years of marriage and six of common life, the author and the singer separate by mutual agreement and remain on good terms for their two sons, Oscar, 19 years old and Léon, 16 years old. Everyone has made their living since. Patrick Bruel stayed in France, Amanda Sthers packed her bags with the children in Los Angeles, traumatized after the Bataclan attacks in November 2015. This departure did not slow down her fine career as a writer. On May 4, she published The coffee suspended published by Grasset. His books always sell like hotcakes. A success that she does not necessarily owe to her relationship with Patrick Bruel.
Having a popular companion could have offered a boost to Amanda Sthers’ career. The latter confides that their life together did not particularly help her. It would even be the opposite since, as she confides so well in the pages of Figaro“everything was harder“: “It brought me neither contacts nor benevolenceshe confesses. But for a man like him, with his intelligence, to look at me with admiring eyes, it saved me time. I needed to be loved and admired.“With the interpreter of Coffee of DelightsAmanda Sthers was pampered.
In his book Conversation with Claude Askolovitch published in 2011 by Plon, Patrick Bruel went back over the underside of his meeting with Amanda Sthers. An immediate thunderbolt for the singer whose love projects were multiplying in the head: “When I meet Amanda in August 2001, I know it’s her. Two days later, I tell him that we will have two children…“Two boys actually come to crown the happiness of the lovebirds: Oscar in 2003, a year before the marriage of his parents, and Léon in 2005.
Becoming a father has also turned Patrick Bruel upside down: “You have worlds colliding in your head and at the same time everything is swept away when [bébé] happens… This feeling of never having loved before and, immediately, this new fear, that anything could happen. And you instantly know it’s for life.“History does not say if by discovering the boils of his sons, Patrick Bruel broke his voice.