Mother of Manon born on April 2, 2010, the fruit of her love with the swimming champion Frédérick Bousquet, Laure Manaudou married the singer Jérémy Frérot and became the mother of two boys: Lou, born July 18, 201775 and Sacha, born on January 9, 2021. If she announced their separation in April 2024, the 38-year-old former swimmer had also known love in the past in the arms of Luca Marin. An unhappy romance since the Italian athlete then cheated on her with his rival at the time, Federica Pellegrini.
“I don’t understand why Luca continually receives text messages from her. For a yes or a no, she writes to him, where she is, what she is doing, where she is going. When I question him, he tells me that They are friends, nothing more, and between friends we like to know what the other is doing. Nothing more, really.“, she said in her autobiography Between the lines.
7000 euros for a few hours with Luca
Completely under the influence of the man she considered at the time to be her soul mate, she had also done excessive things to prove her love to him. “Once or twice a month, I charter a private jet to spend the weekend in Verona, where my love trains. I’m spending 7,000 euros for a few hours with Luca, I’m so crazy about him that it seems obvious to me.“, she reveals in the work.
She adds: “What better way to spend my money than to treat myself to a little happiness with my lover? Am I not paying a high price for all these hours of training, this life apart from the world that has been mine since I was fourteen? Don’t I deserve to tear myself away from boredom to feel my heart beating at a different tempo than that of the race? My parents, faithful to their discretion, made no comment. They would cut off an arm rather than talk about my love life. Naturally, they don’t think any less“Of course in hindsight, she sees this gesture as the ultimate sign that she had.”totally lost sense of reality“.
-Laure Manaudou deceived by Luca Marin
“When I’m not with Luca, I spend most of my time texting him, chatting with him via email. I only think about the moments when we’ll meet again. I experience his absence as a pain , a permanent lack When he is not there, I feel incomplete.“, writes the former champion who then recounts a disturbing event when she surprised him by coming to see him without warning him.
“It’s an understatement to say that Luca doesn’t seem delighted to see me standing on his doormat. He stammers an excuse, slams the door in my face, using some excuse to make me wait five minutes, before opening it again. I find him strange, I enter and notice that in the meantime he has closed the shutters. For what ? I don’t know (…) It seems obvious in any case that he was not alone“, she remembers.
After their separation, Luca Marin was finally cheated on by Federica Pellegrini when he had just asked for her hand. She had fallen under the spell of another swimmer, Filippo Magnini. “I caught Federica Pellegrini with Filippo in the hotel room. Not finding Federica, I started knocking on Magnini’s bedroom door. I banged my fist on the door, I wanted them to open it. I was just looking for proof“, Luca Marin told the Italian press.
