Astrid Veillon is not the type to let her behavior be dictated to. As much in the series of France 3, Tandem, in which she holds one of the leading roles with Stéphane Blancafort, than in her own life. Far from film sets, the 50-year-old actress leads her life as she sees fit. Lately, she even made a radical decision for the good of the couple she forms with Gilles, the father of her 12-year-old son Jules.
To the magazine Gala last June, the actress confided as never before in her love life, shaken by the Covid-19 epidemic. She didn’t come to a brutal and sudden break with Gilles, but she was not far from it. This is the reason why she convinced him to make separate apartments: “We couldn’t live together anymore, we were falling apart while there was still love. […] I suggested that he try something else. […] He took it for a breakup but I didn’t imagine it like that. I didn’t want to do that to go elsewhere either!“
This choice will, against all odds, have been life-saving for the lovers. Perhaps he even made Astrid Veillon change her mind about the marriage that Gilles had already proposed to her in the past, in vain: “My lover asked for my hand four years after we met, just before Jules was born. I refused because I wasn’t ready, but I told her that if in 20 years we were still together, we would get married.“
This speech stems from Astrid Veillon’s own family pattern: “Today, people marry quickly and divorce quickly. I myself am a child of divorceesshe said. In my mind, if I ever get married, it’s for life. I’m afraid of marriage because it’s a promise I’m not sure I can keep. On the other hand, if we have to separate, I know that Gilles will remain the man of my life because it is with him that I had a child..” For Astrid Veillon, it is with a baby that one can make the best statements.