that one time when her granddaughters Perrine and Camille saw her cry

In the columns of Paris Matchpublished this Thursday, January 2, those close to Maïté shared tender confidences about her. An interview during which her granddaughters particularly remembered the only day they saw her cry.

After having marked French television with her recipes as well as her outspokenness, Maïté passed away on December 21 at the age of 86. As a reminder, the famous restaurateur took her last breath in the Rion-des-Landes nursing home. A highly symbolic place since it is also where the one she affectionately called Pierrot, her husband, had also returned his, a few years earlier. After organizing her funeral (which was celebrated on Thursday December 26, 2024), those close to Marie-Thérèse Ordonez (her real name) shared at length confidences about her life in the columns of Paris Matchreleased on newsstands this Thursday, January 2.

According to their revelations, Maïté’s personality on screen was faithful to the one she had in real life. The famous chef always had, according to them, a beautiful smile and seemed very happy most of the time. But when the death of her only son, Serge (who died at age 52, after a long battle with cancer), occurred in 2013, the late restaurateur had lost her legendary smile and did not dress “only in black or gray“, said Géraldine, her son’s widow. “It’s the only time we saw our grandmother cry“, added her granddaughters of the restaurateur. A tender confidence that one of the granddaughters of the late chef, Camille, had also recalled during her grandmother’s funeral. “My grandmother was a force of nature. To tell you the truth, I only saw her cry once. When his son, our father, died“, she said.

Maïté, depressed after the death of her son? His granddaughters are restoring the truth!

After the death of her only child, which occurred in 2013, several media reported that Maïté had been very affected by it and that she suffered a terrible depression. A version of the facts which, in the eyes of his granddaughters, was completely false. And during their interview with our colleagues from Paris MatchGéraldine and Perrine did not hold back from saying it! “She never had the depression the newspapers talked about. It was exaggerated, even though it was a real tragedy“, they chanted. Before continuing, categorically: “She was very supportive of our mother and us.“

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