It is with a heavy, very heavy heart that Iris Mittenaere announced the death of her grandmother, Claudie Druart, on her Instagram account, Saturday September 10. A disappearance all the more shocking as the ex-Miss France had a very strong bond with her “Mamé” as she used to call her. She had already spoken in the media to talk about her granddaughter, in particular for The voice of the North after the election of the beautiful brunette as Miss Universe and her move across the Atlantic to New York with her fiancée Diego El Glaoui.
“JI get the idea that I’m not going to see her much this year, but she will have so many things to tell us !“, she confided. On her return to Lille following her election, Iris Mittenaere said this about her grandmother. “I think she was one of the only ones who told me ‘Don’t go to Miss Universe, I don’t want you to win. And when I won I thought, ‘My grandma’s gonna kill me’“, she recounted.
A touching tribute
A nice anecdote, while the Lille resident has just paid a moving tribute to her grandmother on Instagram. “Our queen Claudie, my universe. No sun will ever be able to replace the clarity of your eyes, nor the gold of your smile“, she wrote, adding the date of death, which coincides with that of Queen Elizabeth II.
“Wait for us with waffles and cardamom jam…my little mama“, she added, she who often pays attention to her line.