– Hollande ‘de-humanised’ –
In quotes carried by Paris-Match, Trierweiler says that at the beginning, “it was electric between us when we were together.”
But Hollande changed, “de-humanised” as he got closer to the reins of power, Trierweiler was quoted as saying by the weekly.
She became increasingly frustrated with the cabal surrounding Hollande as he campaigned for the keys to the Elysee Palace.
According to Paris-Match, Stephane Le Foll, a close advisor and now government spokesman, told her: “If you want an evening with Francois, you have to go through me.”
Then once elected, Hollande pulled further and further away. READ: Rumoured affair turns messy for France’s Hollande.
She recalls an episode before a state dinner, when he asks her whether it takes her a long time to be “beautiful”, to which she responds in the affirmative.
“At the same time, no one asks anything else of you,” the president tells her, according to the weekly.
Trierweiler remembers another wounding episode, when a voter is caught on camera asking Hollande not to marry the journalist, who is deeply unpopular with the French. He just bursts out laughing, according to Paris-Match.
News of his affair with 42-year-old Gayet caused shockwaves in France in January, and Trierweiler was hospitalised for a week after Closer published pictures of Hollande arriving for secret trysts with the actress at a borrowed flat.
Hollande then announced his relationship with Trierweiler was over in an 18-word statement that was devoid of regret or remorse for the woman he had once described as “the love of my life.”
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