Carole Bouquet, Hélène Bizot, Karine Silla, Clémentine Igou, his current companion… many of them have fallen for the beautiful eyes of Gérard Depardieu. But if there is a story that he treasures in memory, it is undoubtedly the one shared with Elisabeth Guignot. For good reason: it was with her that he had his two eldest, Julie and Guillaume Depardieu – who died, alas, in October 2008, at the age of 37, from pneumonia.
Although his half is now a novelist, Gérard Depardieu has always had a penchant for actresses. He had met Elisabeth Guignot in 1970 in a theater class. Crazy in love, the lovebirds had not lost a minute and were married in stride. Of course, Elisabeth Guignot is not only famous for having shared the life of a sacred monster of cinema. Actress, she shot, in particular, for Vincent Lindon, Maurice Pialat or Jacques Deray.
It’s absurd to hit him like that
Their romance lasted longer than expected. On paper, anyway. Separated in 1992, Gérard Depardieu and Elisabeth Guignot officially divorced in 2006, after fourteen years of proceedings. “Me when I got married, it was part of a kind of balance, at the same time as the word that I found and the theater that I approached“, confided the actor to the magazine She in 2020. Don’t think, however, that these two are on bad terms. On the contrary. At the slightest opportunity, the mother of Julie and Guillaume Depardieu does not hesitate to step up to defend his ex.
When Gérard Depardieu decided to ally himself with Vladimir Poutine and take Russian nationality – long before the war broke out in Ukraine – Elisabeth had no hesitation in getting her claws out on the airwaves of RTL radio. “People are wild because he means a lotshe recalled. Exactly, he represents France. It’s all the more absurd to hit him like that, when it was perhaps so easy to recover him…” Today, after his criticism of the war led by Russia against Ukraine, the comedian seen recently in Maigret could well become persona non grata with Putin. What to make Elisabeth react again on the subject?