Accessibility Links Skip to content. Menu Close. Log in Subscribe. Damian Whitworth. Wednesday March 03 , Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy in It felt natural and intimate. This time it felt right to have my name as the title. An artist who takes her time while creating—she writes each song by hand in special notebooks—Bruni values the slow burn.
On paper, you can keep everything. The introspective nature of the material may also have something to do with how it was recorded. Bruni began writing at the tail end of , just as the coronavirus pandemic spread across Europe. Especially Latins. I am a feminist! This is a feminist act, to write a song about your man. Of course it is feminist, because what is more free than that? She jumps to her husband's defence when I bring up one of many legal cases he is currently fighting.
The charge of "elder abuse" is, Bruni urges indignantly, ludicrous. He has something with women — very old-fashioned, right? So he would never come here and let us pay for our Coca-Cola.
If you walk into a room, he would never stay seated. Does she like that? It reminds me of my dad. A little Freud," she adds as an aside, smiling. Maybe because his mother got divorced when he was very young, and was alone with the three kids, and at the age of 30 she studied, became a lawyer, she's really, really strong, really intelligent and strong.
And he sees the woman, my husband, he sees the woman in general like the mother," and she gasps, a sharp intake of reverence to make her point. It's just unimaginable. You can't think about it when you know him! You can say, 'Oh, I don't like Sarkozy, I don't like his policies.
Taste is taste. But you can never say Sarkozy does something to a woman, never! Never never. It's impossible when you know him. While Sarkozy was president, Bruni continued to write songs, but very rarely performed.
Commentators were dumbfounded by her apparent transformation from permissive free spirit to doting bourgeois housewife, with critics divided between suspicion and disappointment. Early on, she tells me, "I would stay home and be a mum at home. I would love that. I mean, don't you? Like, just a little bit depressed. I know it's not politically correct to say that, but it's true — that's how I feel.
After three weeks doing only children and my man and the house, children, the house and my man, children, the house and my man. And I think women that do that are very useful. It's such a hard job — and on top of that they are not admired. You go to a dinner party and someone says, 'What are you doing? I think most women are like me, contradictory and ambivalent. In fact, she says, she used to suffer crippling stage fright — and still does.
The problem is that it doesn't really show, so people don't believe it. But it's physical — I get a little ill. But then you're stuck — people are sitting there, they've bought a ticket, so what are you going to do?
You always hope something happens — the ceiling falls in, the floor explodes, someone is sick in the audience, and the show is cancelled. Or maybe I die from fear, and they just go on stage and say, 'Carla Bruni is dead.
So you've got to go on. So why do it? I am very fearful by nature. I'm just an anxious type. So I am full of fear. I think I try to put as many things between me and death as I can.
A lot of life, change life, change country, change language, who cares? There have been so many rumours about cosmetic surgery that I ask if she has also changed her body. I've certainly never seen a year-old without a single line around the eyes before; but then again, I've never met a woman who's had facial work but wears no makeup.
They look strange, the women — they don't look younger, so I'm just not sure it works. I wouldn't have any moral judgment about it — but if it goes wrong, it's for ever! And how would she feel about becoming first lady again? She sinks back in her chair, her expression fixed in an almost theatrical despond. And an election campaign, it's a little bit like a war — a small war— so the thought of going through that again…" She shudders.
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