Maïwenn left by Luc Besson for Milla Jovovich: she gained 25 kg “in a few months”

The sequel after the ad

This Tuesday, May 16, Jeanne du Barry opens the 76th Cannes Film Festival, with a world premiere. A film directed by Maïwenn, in which she also plays the main character, alongside Johnny Depp who plays Louis XV for her. On this occasion, Marianne dedicated a portrait to him last week. An article in which his famous couple with Luc Besson is briefly mentioned, “his eldest of seventeen years“whom she married in 1992,”before giving birth to their daughter (Shanna, now 30, editor’s note) a year later“.

Thanks to him, she was able to “play” in her film Leon Then The fifth Element, And “leave the Parisian district of Belleville for a villa in the heights of Los Angeles“. But she also made this choice for “to flee his mother, whom she will accuse of frequent violence. Besson would have even hired a bodyguard to protect her“, adds the magazine. Only, his relationship with the famous director will not have lasted. In 1996, he “leaves her for the actress Milla Jovovich” who played in its realization Jeanne D’Arc. A very difficult break to accept for Maïwenn: “She becomes bulimic and gains 25kg in a few months“.

Everything fell apart

At this point in her life, here she is, once again, faced with a painful ordeal, she who spent her childhood “in to be slapped and to be told [qu’elle n’était] that a shit by the two people that[elle aimait] most in the world, his parentss”. She then prepares to suffer again.”JI had my daughter at a very young age, so I had fulfilled my dream, and then… he left me. Everything fell apart for me. We had to believe in life in a different way”, she has already entrusted to the magazine Number about her breakup with Luc Besson.

But fortunately: she knew raise your head ever since. Her career has notably experienced a second wind since she has become, in addition to an actress, a director. Note that she also had a second child in 2004, namely a boy named Diego and from of his relationship with businessman Jean-Yves Le Fur, a relationship that is again at its zenith today.