The conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron is taking a right-wing commentator to court over

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00:00France's first lady, Brigitte Macron, is heading to a US court to fight one of the wildest

00:06conspiracy theories you've ever heard.

00:08Brigitte, who is 72, is married to Emmanuel Macron, who is the president of France.

00:13But an American right-wing commenter called Candace Owens has been pushing completely

00:18false claims to the internet.

00:20Candace Owens has been claiming that Brigitte was actually born a man named Jean-Michael

00:26Trogner, and later transitioned. There's absolutely no evidence for this whatsoever,

00:32but it's spreading on the internet, so much so that Emmanuel Macron is taking it to a court,

00:38fighting back with a defamation lawsuit. And they're even planning to submit photographic

00:44and scientific evidence to fight for the truth. Owens' lawyers have already filed a motion to dismiss.

00:51Now there's no doubt that Candace is gaining media attention by making these claims online.

00:56Take a look at what Piers Morgan said when he was confronting her.

00:59One, you've been duped by these French journalists. And secondly, worse, that you kind of know it's

01:07not true, but you've ridden the wave of conspiracy theory about it because it's been so lucrative.