He is a lover of cinema and the stage, but if there is one thing that Daniel Auteuil cherishes more than anything, it’s love. The 72-year-old actor is gaga for his three children, Nelly, Aurore and Zachary, his youngest of 13, the fruit of his marriage to the woman of his life, Aude. Despite their 27-year difference, Daniel Auteuil never doubted the great journey they would make together: “I have loved women passionately, they are all exceptional! Aude is something else” he confides in the pages of Gala.
It must be said that nothing foreshadowed the beginning of a mad love during the meeting between the painter and the actor. No romantic places, context that lends itself to it but love at first sight against the backdrop of a sector in full crisis in recent days: “It was on the Isle of Beauty that he met Aude Ambroggi. In a smell not of maquis, but of gasoline, at a service station, while he fills up his motorcycle“Informs the weekly. These first love thrills take place in 2003. She is 26 years old, he is 53 but nothing seems to be able to stop the force which pushes them towards each other.
Three years later, Aude Ambroggi and Daniel Auteuil pass the ring on their finger, still in Corsica, the island of origin of the young woman, where it all began. Almost twenty years later, the feelings of Daniel Auteuil have not changed. Tender gestures and complicity are still part of their daily lives and it doesn’t seem to be about to stop for him, who said he fell in love with Aude thanks to her personality: “There is something light in his gaze that immediately touched me. I understood very quickly that I missed his lightness, that’s how I knew I loved him.“
Aude is one of his best supporters now. The one who motivates him, who soothes him, reassures him and encourages him in his projects. The one that gives it a second youth too. For her, Daniel Auteuil agreed to marry, he who had always refused. Out of love, he changed his mind. Aude is the one who pushes him forward. A real fuel, like their meeting.