At the end of last May, Sophie Tapie announced his separation with her husband Jean-Mathieu Marinetti, after five years of love. Before sharing her life with the one to whom she said yes in August 2020 in Saint-Tropez, the daughter of the late Bernard Tapie, who died in October 2021, was in love with a famous son of: the son of Patrick Chesnais, Ferdinand . The latter died in a car accident in 2006. Sophie Tapie returned to this terrible drama, in the program Tell me what you singpresented by Didier Barbelivien, on Europe 1, Sunday July 3.
Moved listening to the song you are beautiful, by Pauline Croz, the 34-year-old singer admitted that this title reminded her a lot of Ferdinand Chesnais. “She reminds me of a friend of mine who was at Cours Eva Saint Paul, we did theater together. It was Ferdinand Chesnaisshe said. This song, we listened to it on repeat. It was really our song from that time and he died suddenly.” While he was with friends, one of whom was driving drunk, he died in a car accident. Patrick Chesnais’ son was only 20 years old, “a guy who was incredibly handsome“, as confided by Sophie Tapie.
The day she discovered the drama
Ferdinand Chesnais and Sophie Tapie were together in theater class. If Sophie Tapie chose the song, the son of Patrick Chesnais dreamed of being an actor, like his father. The young woman, freshly separated, then spoke of the feelings she had for him at the time. “He was a good friend of mine, we went to class together and overnight he never came back to class again.“, she said before returning to the day she discovered the sad news. That morning, their theater teacher arrived late, a rare occurrence. “And we thought there had been a problem. We were a billion leagues away from imagining that it was Ferdinand“, remembered Sophie Tapie.
I was very much in love with him.
The beauty of Ferdinand Chesnais, the daughter of Bernard Tapie was clearly not insensitive to it, according to his confidences. “At the time I was 21 years old, it is not in the order of things. It should never happen. It was honestly the worst funeral of my life. The pain of the parents, of the sister, of her grandparents… This story traumatized me a little because in addition, like 99% of people, I was very much in love with him. So on top of that there was this kind of admiration, of incompleteness. You start to remake the movie: “What if…”“, she confided to Didier Barbelivien.