Hervé Temime, was a great lawyer, who notably defended Bernard Tapie, Laura Smet, Roman Polanski and Gérard Depardieu. He died in April 2023, and for 7 years of his life, he was in a relationship with actress Valérie Lemercier. In an interview given to Paris Match, this February 15, 2024, the latter, about to chair the 2024 César, looked back on their history. And she admitted that she didn’t tell him everything.
“I was afraid he would find out and think I was stupid.”
Indeed, the star of Visitors assures that she hid a big complex from him, that of her failing the baccalaureate. She admits: “I remember admitting it in an interview and then wanting it deleted. At the time, I was with Hervé Temime. I was afraid he would find out and think I was stupid. I still happen, in dreams, to pass and retake my baccalaureate.
This companion that she loved so much, Valérie Lemercier “keep talking to him but it’s harder to get his opinion“, she says, while he is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery. She has wonderful memories of him, and assures: “Hervé loved to laugh and was capable of going to applaud Coluche ten evenings in a row.” And to remember that he said: “You have to laugh at everything except clothes.”
Regarding her certain taste, Valérie Lemercier assures: “He could go miles for a piece of fabric and talk for hours about a jacket lapel or a buttonhole.“The man of law, who had adopted this career while admiring the pleadings of Robert Badinter.”advised practicing one’s profession ‘concentrated and relaxed’. It was his formula” she says.
“I was reassured to know him in my life”
Valérie Lemercier also says about her ex: “He said that death is not much and that worse than death is prison. I was reassured to know him in my life. And I wasn’t the only one. We were certain that we could kill someone and that they would immediately arrive with their Smart to comfort you. With Hervé, we had a person to protect you from everything you could do and even think. We lived and said to ourselves: we can call him.”
F.A.