“My mother saw Giulia before me”, Nicolas Sarkozy did not attend the birth of his daughter

Nicolas Sarkozy confided about his daughter, Giulia. Guest on Guillaume Pley's show, LEGENDon YouTube. More than a year after its release, he continues to promote his book Le Temps des combats.

The former president spoke the great moments of his political career but also his private life, whether it was his meeting with Carla Bruni or his children.

Giulia Sarkozy wanted to return to the Élysée

Father of four children, three boys and a 13-year-old girl, Nicolas Sarkozy was not able to attend the birth of his only daughter. And for good reason: he was traveling in Germany. “I drop Carla off at the clinic, I don't tell her I'm going to Germany so as not to worry her. Her water broke, she's at the clinic, I tell her I'm there, there's no problem. I leave her with her doctors, I leave my doctor there and I sneak off to Frankfurt. And Angela Merkel, all day long, wants to know if it's a boy or a girl. She thinks I'm lying to her but Carla and I didn't know if it was a boy or a girl, we wanted the surprise. And suddenly someone calls me: “You have a daughter”. So I leave the meeting, jump on the plane and arrive at the clinic, it must be 10 p.m. My mother saw Giulia before me.” he told the former NRJ host.

Giulia Sarkozy lived during the first seven months of her life at the Élysée. The young teenager therefore has no memory of it but she wanted to go back to see. Favor granted to him… Emmanuel Macron!“I called President Macron, we were going to have lunch together, I told him: “It would make my daughter happy to see the room she lived in”. He let us into the private apartment, my daughter was very disappointed, she thought there was gilding everywhere, for her it was a palaces. It's not the Palace of Versailles either, she was disappointed by the banality of the president's apartment.” he remembered.

Nicolas Sarkozy: a present and attentive father

Guillaume Pley questioned his guest to find out what kind of father he is. Nicolas Sarkozy responds with humor and frankness: “My knees have been worn out since the birth of my daughter. She is very important like all my childrenshe has a great position, she has great authority, she has the class of her mother, she is very mature and she knows very well how to get everything she wants from me, in a word, I am very weak, extremely weak. JI'm watching a lot, I'm worriedshe goes out, she has friends, she rides horses, when I see her jumping obstacles, my heart stops beating. I try to let her live as much as possible but at the same time, we are attentive.”

He says fatherhood has changed him a lot. “They educated me as much as I educated them. I changed a lot with my children, they changed me a lot. It's an exchange. I'm a free spirit, I impose very few things but what I impose, I really impose, what I forbid, I really forbid them to have bad grades at school, frankly, I have not been a very good student, that. is not a problem. But if they don't read it, that's a huge problem. That they don't play sports is a huge problem and that they aren't nice is a huge problem..” said Nicolas Sarkozy.

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