00:00Slap Re Bleu. We finally, maybe, have an explanation for what is perhaps my favorite story of last year.
00:06Remember when French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped by his wife Brigitte as they deplaned on a foreign trip last
00:14May?
00:14It might have been more of a face shove, but regardless slap, shove, a new book may have finally answered
00:20the question, why'd she do it?
00:22French journalist Florian Tardif penned an almost perfect couple, and in it he claims that the slap heard round the
00:28world came after Brigitte
00:29found steamy text messages on her husband's phone from an Iranian-born actress named Golshifte Farahani.
00:36What's spilling the tea in French? Spilling le thé?
00:40The Macron's relationship is pretty scandalous as it is.
00:44President Macron met Brigitte when he was 15 and she was 39.
00:48He was a student and classmate of her daughter at the time.
00:52Could that be any more French?
00:55Anyway, back to the slap, or un gifleur Francais.
01:01In one message, Macron allegedly told the actress, quote,
01:04I find you very pretty.
01:06Maybe it sounds better and more romantic in French because it's giving middle school vibes.
01:10Actually, considering how he met his wife, let's not go there.
01:14The messages were part of what was reportedly a months-long platonic relationship between the two,
01:20but Mrs. Macron apparently didn't see it that way.
01:23Her office denied the claims directly to the reporter who wrote the book
01:26and added that she never looks at her husband's phone.
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