For no less than 23 years, Sophie Davant formed a cult couple with Pierre Sled, at a time when they were both great figures of France Télévisions. Together, they got married and had two children who have now grown up, Nicolas (26 years old) and Valentine (24 years old). And while we thought them inseparable, Sophie Davant and Pierre Sled created a surprise in 2012 by announcing their divorce. A subject on which the facilitator who presents the Telethon this Saturday, December 4, 2021 on France 2 has often been questioned. So, in 2017, she decided to publish a book called It’s time to choose your life (Albin Michel editions) to tell the story behind their breakup.
“It’s because I fell in love with another man that I realized that my relationship with Pierre was at the end of the line. I was ‘sentimentally available’“She wrote in all honesty. Sophie Davant, however, decided at the time not to continue this romance to give a new chance to her relationship with Pierre Sled, with whom she had not really turned the page.”Although I was passionately in love, guilt and sadness to question the balances that Pierre and I had built for more than twenty years weighed on me“, she explained again.
A “complicated and painful” mourning
Unfortunately, separation was already inevitable for both. “OI couldn’t really find each other. I was no longer in tune with what we were going through. (…) With Pierre, we tried to give ourselves a second chance without succeeding and we decided to separate before arriving at the conflict. That’s for sure, complicated and painful to mourn of such a long relationship, we feel a lot of guilt for not having known how to grow old together“, she expressed during an interview for the magazine Gala shortly after the release of his book.
Today, Sophie Davant and Pierre Sled still have a very good relationship. A few days ago, they also appeared accomplices on social networks on the occasion of the birthday of their daughter Valentine. Each has also rebuilt his life since the former director of information of France 3 remarried with a certain Barbara Ricevuto. As for Sophie Davant, she confided last summer to have also found love …