On Tuesday, November 12, Le Parisien published a joint interview with Valérie Perrin and Claude Lelouch.
The couple, who have been married for eighteen years and one, discussed the age difference between them and the director’s children’s reaction to this new romance.
In 2006, Valérie Perrin, now a successful author – her latest novel, “Daddy,” was published in September 2024 – first met Claude Lelouch, the legendary French filmmaker, in Deauville.
After seventeen years of being together, the couple decided to get married in June 2023.
They share both their creative and artistic sides. Valérie Perrin discovered Kad Merad, the lead actor in “Enfinment ,” the 87-year-old director’s latest film . The octogenarian is so proud of his wife and her success that he told Le Parisien : “My next film will be signed by Claude Perrin. That way, I’m sure it will attract a crowd!”
Valérie Perrin talks about her meeting with Claude Lelouch, who is 30 years older than her.
Valérie Perrin and Claude Lelouch share a love story marked by a thirty-year age difference . Tess’s mother decided to recall their meeting with the director. “I wrote this text at the request of a friend who worked for a monthly magazine in Normandy. It was an open letter to Claude’s cinema, which I admire.” After receiving the letter, the father of seven contacted the author of ” Trois” because ” he absolutely wanted to meet this woman and work with her.” They eventually met again eight days later in Paris and had an amazing evening. After that, everything moved very quickly.” Before they became a couple, Stella Lelouch’s stepmother stated: “I was simply happy and touched because he remembered his films. At the time, there was no romantic interest between them . And for good reason: they were thirty years apart. “Thirty years is a big age difference: I was 39, Claude was 69.” But in the face of the obvious, they ignored the decades that had separated them. “After that, everything happened so quickly. We were so happy together that there was no time to waste!”
“I Was Welcomed with Open Arms”: How did the meeting between Valérie Perrin and Claude Lelouch’s seven children go?
For Valérie Perrin, integrating into Claude Lelouch’s family , which has seven children , wasn’t easy. In an interview with Le Parisien, she said, however, that her husband’s children ” welcomed her with open arms .” She spoke of their kindness and acceptance, which made it easier for her to integrate into their lives: “With his seven children, we have a total of nine [she is the mother of two, editor’s note] and eight grandchildren, ” emphasizes Valentin Perrin’s mother. With great admiration, Claude Lelouch made a beautiful statement to his wife: ” Valérie has taken over this family wonderfully. Where other women [he had seven children with five different women, editor’s note] managed to scatter them, she naturally managed to bring them together.” A large, united family for even greater happiness.