On October 3, 2021,
Bernard Tapie
died at the age of 78 from cancer.
A year and a half after his death,
Dominique Tapie
chose to look back on his 52 years of life with the businessman in
Bernard, the fury of living
(L'Observatoire).
On this occasion, she agreed to confide in
Audrey Crespo-Mara
in "The Portrait of the week" of "Seven to eight" on TF1 broadcast this Sunday, March 19.
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“I really wanted to know and question this woman who has always remained in the shadows. She has nothing of a woman erased. She resisted her husband all her life, the only way to exist by his side. She was always loving but critical. She's an intelligent, elegant woman."
, confides the journalist.
Together, in a suite at the Le Meurice hotel in Paris, they discussed at length their relationship with Bernard Tapie, their intimacy but also the terrible attack they suffered in their country house in Combs-la-Ville, in Seine-et-Marne, on the night of April 3 to 4, 2021, a few months before the death of the businessman.
Abused and tied up, they thought they were losing their lives.
An event that particularly bruised Dominique Tapie and leaves her today in destitution.
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The last time Dominique Tapie agreed to respond to a television interview dates back to... 1990.
“She says herself that this is the second television interview of her life.
The first was 33 years ago with Michel Drucker!”
, underlines Audrey Crespo-Mara not a little proud to have succeeded in convincing her.
“I had exchanged with her at the time when I painted
the portrait of Bernard Tapie
, a few months before his disappearance.
He himself had told me:
“The person who will have to be interviewed when I am no longer there is my wife.
Only she really knows me.
But good luck!
She refuses to speak”
.
Their son, Laurent, told me the same thing.
Then I knew she liked her husband's portrait.
And more recently, I spoke with his editor who was keen to entrust me with his very first TV interview, on the occasion of the release of his book, ”
adds the journalist.
Dominique Tapie in "The Portrait of the week" by Audrey Crespo-Mara from "Seven to eight" on TF1.
TF1.
