At the time, some called her a “cougar”. And she defended herself, loudly proclaiming the legitimacy of her love for Grégoire, 17 years her junior. However, the story between Liane Foly and this young man ended badly. The singer eventually realized that their age gap was too great.
Liane Foly disturbed by her love affair with a much younger man: “It’s not possible, you were with your son”
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The scene takes place eleven years ago, in February 2013, in the RMC studios. Liane Foly is the guest of Big Mouths. Alain Marschall and Olivier Truchot question him about his love life and ask him THE question that everyone is asking about him: “Are you a heart to take?” It is then that the singer, in a burst of saucy sincerity, responds straight away: “Not just the heart!”
The tone is humorous but in those years, in reality, Liane Foly, who celebrates his 62nd birthday this December 16not only has an empty heart, but he is also not at the party. She has just separated from a man. And even if it was a necessity, psychologically, she suffers the blow. “I know today that this breakup was a sign – and it was only just beginning – that I finally had to take care of myself, she confided in September 2017 in the pages of Gala. At the time, I burned out which lasted about two years. » The cause of this descent into hell? The end of a beautiful love story. « A big emotional breakup, she specified in this same interviewwith a boy with whom I spent six years, and who was seventeen years my junior. »
A year earlier, on France Info, in the show Everything and its opposite of Philippe Vandelthe singer said a little more about the end of this mysterious relationship. “He's the one who left me. I thank him, though. It was good, we were seventeen years apartin the other direction precisely. The sense that we don’t often talk about, the one where I was older than him.”
Liane Foly had been called a “cougar”
He was Grégoire, a young sound engineer. Young, to the point that in 2011, while they were still together, the newspaper France Evening had called the interpreterGradually of “cougar” during an interview. Comfortable in her sneakers, accepting this story and this age difference, she responded straight away: “Are you saying that because my partner is fifteen years younger than me? But when a guy has a younger wife, we don't tell him anything… No, I'm not a cougar. I'm just living a wonderful story.”
A story that occurred ten years just after another unforgettable relationship had ended, the one that Liane had with the musician André Manoukian who would later become the philosopher juror of New Star… The decade they spent together had caused a lot of ink to flow. Tears too. Deceptions, contradictory desires to have children or to get married, their adventure ended with a formal settling of scores on paper. Curled in Manoukian's book, Fluid Mechanicspublished in 2008, Liane Foly responded sharply in the press: “I'm ashamed. It stinks. It lacks elegance. We feel like we're in a Marc Dorcel film. I don't want to hear that he suffered so much. He just had to love me more. In fact, I don’t think he ever loved me.” Strong words but which belong to the past, the two exes having since calmed their resentment.
Love, on the other hand, she lives it fully with Grégoire. In 2011, every time she spoke, she mentioned the young man, often returning to their age difference. HAS France Eveningshe blurts out: “We are just fifteen years apart: it's not bad, but it's not huge! And it must be said that I'm very childlike in my head: I love to have fun…” A few weeks later, she admitted to TV Star : “We've been together for five years, and things are going wonderfully. We have a real complementarity and a real complicity: that's called love, I think, isn't it? It's the most beautiful encounter of my life , with that of my manager Laurent, who has been following me for twenty years.” The singer, who was then 49 years old, even went so far as to share her desires for motherhood, which had since disappeared. “I would like to be ten years younger and give my partner a child,” she imagines still ignorant that the dream she lives with Grégoire will soon end.
“I have been single for 10 years” says Liane Foly explaining that Grégoire “rebuilt his life“
It was his companion who, according to Liane Foly, decided to end their relationshipbut with hindsight, the artist concedes that this choice was the right one, notably because this age difference which “amused him”or from which she freed herself at the start, had ended up weighing on him. She confided it in 2016 to Thierry Ardisson in Hello Earthlings : “It actually bothered me. It bothers me. I see a photo, like that, I say to myself: “It's not possible, you were with your son! » “It must be said that there is no future with a person like that,” she added, ending up also confessing to Philippe Vandel: “I didn't realize at the time, when you're inside, you're living a story inside, you don't realize it. (…) There, now I say: 'Wow.'”
Today, what is happening in the lives of the two former lovers? Gregory has “remake your life”et “builds a family”revealed Liane Foly to Gala in 2017. As for her, still Galabut in 2023, she confided, returning again to this sentimental episode: “I have been single for ten years after a painful breakup.” The star nevertheless added: “Living alone has done me a lot of good, so I thank my ex. He did me a big favor by leaving me.”
