Besides, all the fuss made around his birthday annoys him. “I’m tired of this birthday, she told AFP. I’ve had enough because it’s harassment, I’m really in demand from all sides. Fortunately it’s not every day that I turn 90.” It’s been a long time since the sex symbol of the 50s and 60s turned the page on big parties and other social events to become the most discreet of stars.without agent, without press officer, without artifice or glitter”note Paris Match.
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“I flee humanity”
Her refuge is La Madrague, her legendary house in Saint-Tropez acquired in 1958. Far from the luxury of palaces, she lives there in what she calls “her brothel”. “It feels alive when a house is messy. We don’t live in a museum.”she confided to Parisian. She spends her mornings there, far from prying eyes. This is where she reads the day’s press, surrounded by her animals. If his last two dogs died, there are always cats and pigeons who invite themselves into the house and which she feeds. “I flee from humanity and have a silent solitude.”
On the other hand, don’t expect to see her appear on the small private beach on her property. It’s been ages since she visited the place which has become a spot for tourists. They crowd into the boats passing nearby, with the hope of… In vain, obviously.
An incendiary letter
She spends the afternoons at La Guarrigue, her second home. Located not far from Madrague, this is where its foundation is located. She takes in lost, abandoned or mistreated animals. There are currently 11,250, says The Parisian. Not counting those she calls her “big ones”, understand her farm animals: ponies, pigs, goats, sheep and horses.
She responds to the numerous letters sent to her and also writes letters, sometimes vitriolic. Like the one she sent to President Emmanuel Macron in April 2023 in which she called him a“to be evil” because of its inaction against animal suffering. An incendiary letter in which she berated the resident of the Élysée, calling him a coward and castigating his contempt for the French. It was not the first time that she pulled the head of state’s ears in this way.
The preservation of species and the well-being of animals are the battles of his life. Despite the requests and the incredible fees, Brigitte Bardot never renounced her commitment, she never returned to the cinema. “I decided to stop for the animals, […] I had to bring to others, to animals, what I had been given all my life.”she confessed in The World in August 2021.
At 90 years old, despite the difficulties she has getting around – she only does so with two crutches – she does not give up. She hopes one day to see come true this wish that has been dear to her for half a century: that the horse meat trade ceases. “When I left cinema, it was the first thing I asked for. Let us no longer kill or eat horses in France. Well, I have nothing at all!” And on the subject, she is aware of everything, even the actions of Walloon ministers. In an interview she gave us in 2016, she called Carlo Di Antonio, then Walloon minister in charge of animal welfare, “beautiful disgusting”. She criticized him for not changing Belgian law to allow horses to be saved from the slaughterhouse.
Free Paul Watson, the protector of whales
Today, another fight was added to Brigitte Bardot’s list of concerns: Paul Watson. The American-Canadian environmental activist is today imprisoned in Greenland (Denmark) for having led actions against whalers. Tokyo demands his extradition. “He must not be extradited to Japan. There he will die. It’s a very tough regime that doesn’t do any favors. And prison, Paul is 73 years old…”she explains in the pages of Parisian.
“Yes, I support Marine Le Pen”
On the political level, Brigitte Bardot does not hide it, she leans to the right. Too right for some. In 2023, on LCI, she deplored the disappearance of the classic right, called Gaullist, the one in which she found herself. In his eyes, this was replaced by the National Rally, which in his eyes is not far right. “The word ‘extreme’ is superfluous. she said.
She has never hidden her support for Marine Le Pen, which she reiterated in the interview given to Parisian for his 90th birthday. “Yes, I support Marine Le Pen. There was a formidable power that presented itself, and then they were eliminated. Jordan Bardella, I find him very, very good. But it’s so hard to straighten out France. It’s not “It’s perhaps no worse that he didn’t become Prime Minister in such an unmanageable time. It was not the time to be in office.”
