Romain Grosjean is currently on a promotional tour for the book he wrote with his partner, Marion Jollès. In Death in the face, the couple tell their story and in particular the terrible accident suffered by the French driver at the Bahrain Grand Prix in November 2020. A tragedy that could have cost him his life, but which will ultimately help him move forward. Now engaged in the NASCAR championship, the most prestigious automobile race in the United States, the 35-year-old sportswoman thrives on the other side of the Atlantic with his wife, Marion Jollès, and his three children.
If all goes for the best with the beautiful brunette, former journalist specializing in Formula 1 for Canal +, the beginnings were more complicated than one might think. Guest of the show As an aside on Canal + Monday November 1, Romain Grosjean was kind enough to talk about their meeting and this love “which was not easy” at the beginning as he tells it. “With Marion, we met quite a few times before 2008, in various galas or operations. And then, in 2008, in Le Castellet, in the south of France, Marion came to cover a Renault operation. Me, I come for this operation too “, he tells journalist Nathalie Levy.
It still took me six months or more to get my first kiss
After this day of work, Romain Grosjean tries his luck with the one with whom he has been married since June 2012. “In the evening, I suggest: ‘We’re both going back to Paris, do you want to come and have dinner with me?'”, he relates, but faced with the refusal of Marion Jollès, he invites another journalist to avoid the side “romantic” of the evening. Despite the success of his plan and the result that we all know, the pilot had to wait a long time before getting down to business with his partner. “It still took me six months or more to get my first kiss”, he recalls, a smile on his face.