It was a meeting that turned Michèle Bernier’s life upside down. In 1982, the actress joined the legendary Bouvard Theatera show broadcast at the time on Antenna 2 highlighting future talents. It was there that she met Bruno Gaccio, author-performer within the program dear to Philippe Bouvard. The two young artists got together and had two children, Charlotte, born in 1987, and Enzo, who was born in 1997. It was that year, during Michèle Bernier's second pregnancy, that Bruno Gaccio decided to leave the latter.
Michèle Bernier looks back on her breakup with Bruno Gaccio
This Sunday, January 5, Michèle Bernier was present in the “portrait of the week” sequence produced by Audrey Crespo-Mara in Seven to eight on TF1. During the interview, the journalist asked the actress about the start of her relationship with Bruno Gaccio, for whom she fell in love at first sight at the time: “For me, yes, him, I don’t know! I don't think I ever asked him“, she remembers with a smile. “I know that the first time I saw it… I said to myself: “Oh my! »“
Subsequently, Michèle Bernier returned to her difficult separation from Bruno Gaccio, she who was pregnant with Enzo: “He met people and that's it… Today, 28 years later, things are very peaceful. We do a lot of couch work, a lot of psychology.“
“Many women asked me how I managed to get through it.“
Following this breakup, Michèle Bernier adapted a comic strip for the theater in 2000, The noonday demonwhich tells the story of a forty-year-old woman left by her partner for a younger woman. Despite the similarities with her personal life, Michèle Bernier found the strength to go on stage in order to move forward: “We started working, it wasn't easy. I think at some point I actually stopped asking myself that question. I really wanted to move forward… I had met a lot of women who had suffered, I said to myself: 'I'm not alone in having experienced things like that'. Many women asked me how I managed to get through it.”
