When in 1970, the young Gérard Depardieu met Elisabeth Guignot, 7 years older than him, it was love at first sight: they quickly married and welcomed Guillaume in 1971 and Julie in 1973. Like their lives private, their professional life is also very often combined in two: they share several times the poster at the cinema, in particular in The Boybroadcast this Wednesday evening on Arte.
At the time of the film’s release, in 1995, the couple was already separated: in 1992, Gérard Depardieu had welcomed a little girl, Roxane, with his new companion, Karine Silla, whom he had met a few months earlier. A discreet separation that will lead to a divorce… in 2006, 14 years later! The same year, the actor had also become the father for the fourth time of a little boy, Jean, with another companion, Hélène Bizot.
A divorce pronounced on the late which did not bother that much the former couple, still very close. In 2013, while Gérard Depardieu multiplied the escapades by getting closer to Vladimir Poutine to take Russian nationality, his ex-wife had defended him on RTL, calling him a man “extremely unhappy“.
“People are crazy because he represents a lot. Precisely, he represents France. It’s all the more absurd to hit him like that, when it was perhaps so easy to recover him“, she had regretted. Same line of conduct when accused of tax evasion, the same year. “When you look at the house he had chosen in Belgium, he had no intention of living there anyway. He who loves beautiful things so much, even if he can do without them. Do you see him by the side of a road, in a house like that, sinister?“
Since then, Gérard Depardieu continues to be talked about, especially for stories of sexual assault, but Elisabeth Guignot, who has just turned 80, is much more discreet in the media. Without moving away, however, from the one who shared his life for more than 20 years, father of his two children. Probable support from her daughter Julie, actress triple Caesarean in 2004 and 2006 and in a relationship with Philippe Katerine, the former actress must also take care of their two children, Billy, 10 years old and Alfred, 9 years old.
And of course Louise, his only granddaughter, offspring of his late son Guillaume, also an actor, who lost his life in 2008. Disturbed by numerous drug cases but a film prodigy, the young man had a motorcycle accident in 1995 and made the decision, eight years later, to have his lower leg amputated, handicapped by numerous pains. A few days before his death, he contracts pneumonia and a new staphylococcus aureus, which will be fatal to him.