A relationship born badly and grown in distance. The relationship between Brigitte Bardot, who passed away on December 28 at the age of 91, with her only son, Nicolas Charrier, has found only after many decades its fragile balance.
At the end of the 1950s, Brigitte Bardot was already a star and had several miscarriages behind her. Motherhood is not one of her desiresmuch less would she want to become a mother with Jacques Charrier, her partner of the moment. The writer Pascal Louvrier, in the book Truth BBdescribes that situation like this: «She could be happy. It’s quite the opposite. She doesn’t want this baby. She’s not ready. He doesn’t want to. Not with this man, Charrier, who becomes more and more possessive, who she knows is fragile, sometimes violent.” But she is expecting a baby. And her father, Louis Bardot, calls her to order: «You are pregnant, don’t forget it. You must marry the father.” Thus, on 18 June 1959, the wedding was celebrated in Louveciennes (Yvelines), the Bardots’ place of origin, without any enthusiasm.
In his autobiography Initials BB (1996) the actress talks about her pregnancy like this: «It was like a tumor that had fed on me, that I had carried in my swollen fleshand I was just waiting for the blessed moment when they would finally free me from it. The nightmare had reached its climax: I would have to carry the object of my unhappiness with me into life.”
Nicolas was born on January 11, 1960. Brigitte Bardot is 25 years old and feels overwhelmed. According to Marie-Dominique Lelièvre in Brigitte Bardot, a real eye-catcher“When they place the baby on her belly, she is so exhausted that she rejects it.” The actress will say: «I would have preferred to give birth to a puppy».
In an interview with Caroline Pigozzi (reported in the book Why them), adds: «It was definitely not the time to have a child. I had suicidal thoughts every three minutes, I did nothing but stupid things, but you can’t choose. The timing was wrong and everyone suffered for it».
For Brigitte Bardot, as she later declared to Le Point, that experience was a trauma. When Nicolas was three years old, the actress and her husband divorced, and Jacques Charrier was granted custody of his son. Thus, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier lived away from his mother and, above all, away from public life.
But the sentences that the mother had spoken (and written in a book read by millions of people) become too hard to bear Nicolas, who decides to sue his mother for violation of her right to privacy during the pregnancy, supported by father Jacques Charrier. As reported Liberation in 1997, the request was for 6 million francs in compensation for Nicolas and his father against the actress, and 5 million for the publisher Grasset, who had published Initials BB (the actress was later sentenced to pay 150,000 francs to Jacques Charrier and 100,000 francs to Nicolas).
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