She never wanted to become a mother, and yet… Isabelle Mergault is indeed the mother of a little girl. Or rather, adoptive mother. Indeed, in 2016, with our colleagues from Galathe member of “Big heads” she confided in her difficult relationship with men. “I’ve been single for a while. Since I don’t go out, I don’t meet anyone. But anyway, no lover has ever left their toothbrush at my house. I never said I wanted it not. doesn’t happen, but I’ve never gone to these type of men”a way of making it clear that motherhood was difficult to envisage for her.
But her life literally changes at the end of the 2010s, when she meets Maya. “I started as a babysitter and then little by little we said good, as she is with me almost all the time and the mother is really in trouble, I said: listen, here it would be better that it bears my name. It’s easier for the procedures and everything”she explained at the microphone ofEuropean 1 in 2014. Today, Isabelle Mergault has indeed adopted her daughter Maya, but not fully.
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Indeed, guest on “C to You” this Thursday, June 1, the columnist and actress returned to her adoption. “I met her mother one day and I fell in love with the little one who was not even a year old”she confided at first before continuing: “I started to keep her and I remained friends with the mother. And then she, she went to Niger, she came back to France, she was very busy. So, I said to her “listen if you want I’ll keep her at home, but you have to do things in order”.
It’s about a “simple adoption”. Fact, “So Maya can see her mom and dad”Isabelle Mergault is “just in charge of his education”. “It’s not a full adoption”the cut then Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine before her guest confirms: “No, no, she is not deprived of her rights, I just wanted her to have a good education. She bears my name”. A life that suits the 65-year-old actress very well, but also her adopted daughter.
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