Laura Smet (42 years old): who is this famous writer with whom she had a relationship that few know? -Grazia

Daughter of Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday, Laura Smet has always been in the spotlight. Especially since she chose a career in cinema, like her mother. And if today she remains quite discreet on her marriage to Raphaël Lancrey-Javal in 2019 and the birth of her son Léo a year later, another of her relationships was highly publicized. It’s about the romance she had with the
célèbre écrivain Frédéric Beigbeder. Quite a difficult part of the star’s life.

A complicated relationship between Laura Smet and Frédéric Beigbeder

It is between 2004 and 2006 that Laura Smet had a love story with Frédéric Beigbeder, 18 years her senior. At this time, the young woman’s career was booming. Despite everything, like his companion at the time, excesses punctuate his daily life. Thus, she goes through a very difficult time where she even ends up being admitted to the Georges-Pompidou hospital in Paris after having consumed a cocktail of drugs.

Moments that Frédéric Beigbeder returned to during his appearance on the show In Apart on Canal +. As relayed Here isNathalie Lévy raised this relationship with Laura Smet whose the writer speaks in his work A barrier against the Atlantic.

“You say at one point: ‘It’s a miracle we’re still alive‘. Were you both a little lost, a lot lost, a lot lost, both of you at that time?†, asked the famous voice of the program. “We practiced. I, who was older, should perhaps have been more careful. I was in a phase of my life where I was practicing a
certain nocturnal shift†, replied the novelist before continuing: “But I think now – it’s twenty years later – we can look at this story with tenderness.â€

Where are Frédéric Beigbeder’s loves?

If the relationship of Laura Smet and Frédéric Beigbeder has had dark moments, today, they are on very good terms. . . . The daughter of Nathalie Baye calls herself invité
à son mariage with Raphaël Lancrey-Javal in 2019. The writer then told Point of view : “Laura’s eyes matched the ocean. She was so happy that she radiated like an atomic power plant. Everyone was smiling, there was love and joy in the air. It was one of the most beautiful weddings I’ve ever been to..â€

For the event, Frédéric Beigbeder was accompanied by his other half, the Swiss photographer Lara Micheli. The couple married in 2014 before having a daughter in 2015, then a boy in 2017. During his appearance on Guillaume Pley’s show Legend on Youtube, he returned to this idyll. And she, too, experienced upheavals. “I think I did some really stupid things, and we overcame my ‘minability’ and my worthlessness. It united us,
ça nous a rapprochés†, he said. Frédéric Beigbeder even asked for his wife’s hand again: “I think we should propose to each other very regularly.â€