April Fool’s Day the images that went viral showing Brigitte Macron slapping Emmanuel Macron when leaving a planethe affair continues to fuel speculation. This time, these are the revelations of political journalist Florian Tardif in his book An (almost) perfect couplepublished on May 13, which put the subject back in the spotlight. According to him, this sequence broke out after Brigitte Macron discovered exchanges between her husband and the Franco-Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani. Since 2024, rumors suggesting a possible relationship between Emmanuel Macron and the actress have been circulating regularly.
Speculations that the actress has already denied several times in the press. In an interview given to Gala in 2025, she reacted as follows: “The question is why people are interested in these kinds of stories. I think there is a lack of love in some people and they need to create such romances to fill it.”. And the actress continues about this rumor then: “It comes in waves, it appears, it disappears… I look, I observe: what can I do? It doesn’t even annoy me. What’s the point?”.
Old interviews with Golshifteh Farahani resurface and get people talking
A few months earlier, in an interview given to Pointthe Iranian star was already returning to these rumors with a lot of perspective. “Rumours must be allowed to pass. Fair or not fair, they are rumours. It’s like waves that come and pass. I’ve experienced this so many times in my life. I believe that, in any way, this country is linked to love. I think maybe a love story was missing and people created it… Well, I was in Vancouver for seven months, then there I was in the Amazon for three months, a lot of people tried to contact me. But hey… I can’t imagine a politician with a really happy wife… she declared.
In recent days, certain old statements by Golshifteh Farahani have also resurfaced on social networks, fueling new interpretations… In an interview granted to Paris Match in 2025, the actress notably shared her very personal vision of romantic relationships in France. “In France too, there is the culture of the mistress and the lover. Why stay with your wife if we are no longer in love with her or if we are in love with someone else? My theory is that all French men are stuck with their mothers. Their first wife is the mother they didn’t have and there, they never let go of her. Even if they are madly in love with someone else”, she declared.
Brigitte Macron’s entourage denies any link with the Iranian actress
She then added: “I see this around me, often. Italians are much more frank. In France, the man talks to you about Baudelaire, Rimbaud; an Italian man… he just says that he likes you, it’s much more direct”. Before concluding with a sentence which, even today, continues to provoke a lot of reaction: “The Paris that I love is the cosmopolitan Paris, the Paris that is not perfect. She’s like a lover or a mistress, we can’t live in peace with her, but she inspires us“.
Despite the media excitement, Brigitte Macron’s entourage nevertheless insisted on firmly denying the version put forward by Florian Tardif, political journalist at Paris Match. Contactés par The Parisianthose close to the First Lady assured that there was no link between this scene and the Iranian actress. “Brigitte Macron categorically denied this story to the author directly, on March 5, specifying that she never looked in her husband’s cell phone”, affirmed the presidential entourage, regretting that this clarification was not integrated into the book.
The Paris Match journalist persists and signs!
As soon as the images were broadcast last year, the Élysée had already rejected the idea of a marital dispute. A relative of the couple then simply mentioned “a moment when the president and his wife unwinded one last time before the rowdy start of the trip”. Emmanuel Macron himself quickly tried to calm the controversy: “We were joking with my wife as we often do. Everyone needs to calm down.”.
Guest on RTL, this Wednesday, May 13, opposite Marc-Olivier Fogiel, Florian Tardif nevertheless assured that “It’s a couple scene.” “And we regret it today at the Élysée, quite simply because they could have shown at that moment that they were a couple, that they were a real couple, that they were not a perfect couple. This is the story that we have been given since the start of the first five-year term.” insisted the journalist. The continuation of the next episode of what already promises to be a saga!
