Macron allies deny Brigitte slapped French president over texts with Iranian actress

May 14, 2026

Politico: The claim was made in a new book about the pair, “An (almost) perfect couple,” by Paris Match journalist Florian Tardif. Tardif writes in his book, which went on sale Wednesday, that Brigitte “lost her temper” while the two were on the plane in Vietnam after discovering by mistake a message on his phone from Iranian-French star Golshifteh Farahani…