He thought he would never find love again, never get over his divorce. In 1998, Jacques Villeret separated from the actress Irina Tarassov, whom he had married at the end of 1979. Hardly supporting this pain, drowning his grief in alcohol, the actor nevertheless met a brought him crazy happiness until the end of his life. Sény, widow – she lost her first husband in the early 2000s – and mother of three children, had just discovered him in the film The stupid dinner when she decided she absolutely had to meet the actor. Twist of fate: she had the opportunity to look into her blue eyes a few months later.
Both flayed alive, weakened by the trials of life, fell in love at first sight during this first interview. “We are met at a time when we were very unhappy each in our life and we decided to try not to be together anymore“, confided Sény in the columns of the magazine Gala, about their beautiful love story. Together, they were overjoyed and had found hope. She nicknamed him her “white baby“, he nicknamed her his “black baby“Together, they never hesitated to participate in public events while displaying their complicity. When Sény decided to leave Lille to live with her darling in Paris, she was finally faced with the worst.
For the second time, she lost her other half. In January 2005, Jacques Villeret died in Évreux, in the Eure, at the age of 53 following an internal haemorrhage, due to liver disease. The ordeal was unbearable for Sény … it was even more so because of the actor’s family. Wanting to go quite naturally to the funeral of his companionin Perrusson in Indre-et-Loire, it was quite simply ceremonial ban, in the church of Saint-Roch de Loche, by the mother of Jacques Villeret. Pierre Arditi, a great friend of the actor, had tried to tip the scales on his side, unfortunately in vain. Widowed for the second time, Sény had, fortunately, been able to go and place a bouquet of flowers on the grave of her man…