On the occasion of his new book 100 Recipes to Save (published by Albin Michel), Julie Andrieu gave an interview to the Podcast Beautiful Journey. The opportunity for the France Télévisions presenter to talk about her move to Italy and to reveal why she finally returned to France.
Express move to Italy for Julie Andrieu and her family
Last May, Julie Andrieu's Instagram subscribers discovered that the 50-year-old presenter had moved to Italy with her children Hadrien (born in 2012) and Gaïa (born in 2015), as well as her husband Stéphane Delajoux. But at the beginning of July, the tribe returned to Versailles even though they had originally planned to stay in Rome much longer. “We really left to settle there. But it turned out to be a little complicated, because my husband did not have the possibility of leaving in a more lasting waybecause he works here. So he was going back and forth. We said to ourselves that it would be better for me to be the one to travel back and forth to Italy. He works here, we found our feet here. But we stayed three months in Rome“, confided the charming blonde.
It was a discussion with one of her friends that made her want to take the plunge. The woman in question told him that she planned to go to Rome for a year. “She told me there was a wonderful French school. His sister was already there. I told him: 'Well, if you leave, I'll leave.'“, continued Julie Andrieu. And to clarify that she loved Italian culture and that she had wanted to live in another country for a long time. “I've been wanting to experience living somewhere else for a long time. I never had this chance, although I traveled a lot. I have never stayed anywhere else, even less with the children. And it's true that it's always upsetting to leave your family, even if it's to go on great trips and discoveries. There to take them, it was fabulous“, she admitted.
The regrets of the France Télévisions presenter
Although they had no difficulty enrolling the children in a French school, the search for an apartment was more complicated. Julie Andrieu explained that the rents were “very expensive” in Rome. But she was able to count on her friend Luana Belmondo to help her. “The children still went a little backwards, because they are very happy where they are. They have their friends at school, they didn't know anyone. It was a bit of a leap, but that's what I liked. (…) I was there for the children every day“, she then said.
But their experience was ultimately cut short, much to the mother's great sadness. “It was hard, because I would have liked to stay. But for family reasons, it was our priority…“, she concluded.
