At the helm of the show called Julie’s Notebooks every weekend on France 3 for many years now, host Julie Andrieu has established herself as an emblematic figure of the French audiovisual landscape in recent years. On this day of Monday October 21, 2024, the presenter will certainly have a thought for her late mother, Nicole Courcel. Indeed, the actress would have been 93 years old today. For the record, the former headliner of French cinema in the 50s and 60s was born on October 21, 1931 in Saint-Cloud, before dying at the age of 84 on June 25, 2016 in Paris. His daughter was obviously present at his funeral, which took place in the Saint-Roch church, in the first arrondissement of the capital. A few years before her death, Nicole Courcel spoke about her daughter in the columns of France Sunday.
As a reminder, Julie Andrieu comes from an illegitimate relationship between her two parents. “Meeting her dad was a beautiful love story, of which our daughter is the fruit. But this man had a wife, a child… and there was no question of him abandoning them“, explained Nicole Courcel in 2012, without revealing the identity of her daughter’s father. The birth was therefore a difficult moment for the actress, who had to face this ordeal alone. “When Julie was born, she was fat, black hair… awful!“, the actress noted in particular. Finally, Nicole Courcel revealed the truth to her daughter when she was only six years old. Although she dreaded this moment, everything ultimately went well. “Now she calls him ‘daddy’. And it was at his home that the banquet of her marriage to Stéphane took place (Delajoux, editor’s note)”she had clarified.
Nicole Courcel: her daughter’s romantic relationship with Jean-Marie Périer “made her sick”
During this same interview, Nicole Courcel spoke about the past romantic relationship between her daughter and the photographer Jean-Marie Périer, marked by their large age gap (35 years, editor’s note). “I knew he was very kind, that he would not harm my daughter. But their age difference bothered me. I said to myself: ‘That’s it, she’s gone to find a surrogate father!’ It made me sick“, admitted the actress. This romance will have had a significant impact on the life of Julie Andrieu, given that it was Jean-Marie Périer who introduced her to cooking, thus allowing her to embark on a whole new career.
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