It’s not just the Covid-19 crisis, confinements and curfews that have made the French want to go elsewhere. At a time when some are leaving everything to marry a whole new life in the green after months locked up in an apartment, Amanda Sthers, she does not seem to be moving. Since 2016, the talented author, whose latest novel The coffee suspended is available since May 4 from Grasset editions, is an American citizen. The beauty has left Paris, her friends and her landmarks to start all over again. The click? A certain November 13…
On the evening of November 13, 2015, Amanda Sthers plans to spend a dream evening in the stands of the Stade de France with her sons for the France-Germany match. The meeting will turn into a nightmare. This dramatic night, no one has forgotten it. Amanda Sthers has therefore decided to distance herself from Paris by leaving to live thousands of kilometers away, in Los Angeles. A new start alone or almost since in her race, the 44-year-old screenwriter took Oscar, 19, and Léon, 16, the children she had with Patrick Bruel.
“She was only supposed to stay a year. She is still there and her children study there.“, Explain Le Figaro in the portrait he devotes to Amanda Sthers. The return to France is not planned for the moment. Deprived of his children on a daily basis, does Patrick Bruel blame his ex-wife for having taken him away from his sons? Far from there ! The exes remained on very good terms, to the point of continuing the declarations of love on social networks and when the decision was made, Patrick Bruel only encouraged him.
In an interview at Paris Match, the 63-year-old artist said that this choice was beneficial for everyone. If the distance is not easy, the little family has found its cruising speed between France and the United States: “Knowing that they were leaving, my life became divided between France and the United States. I spend between three and four weeks there every two months. I like life there, I like their life there, and this experience does them a lot of good. (…) I have even more fulfilled children, who have a new relationship with others, who are totally bilingual, who have a new relationship with time. It’s a nice step for all of us.“For them, the family is sacred.