Isabelle Mergault was no longer quite the same person during the last years of her life. His friend Laurent Ruquier made poignant confessions about the late actress and director.
Laurent Ruquier and Isabelle Mergault have known each other for several decades and their friendship has gone through many trials. But in recent years, the host had noticed that the actress, who died at the age of 67 last March following lung cancer, had changed completely…
Isabelle Mergault changed the last years of her life: “She became withdrawn…”
An event changed Isabelle Mergault’s life around ten years ago: she became the mother of a little girl born in Nigeria and named Maya, now aged 17, then, a few years later, of a daughter named Iris (her sister). And when his daily life was turned upside down, his links with Laurent Ruquier became different.
“She’s a different Isabelle during the last ten years of her life. But they are not the ones I know the most because she has become a little withdrawn. She was already a little wild before, so now she closed herself off in her family cocoon“, explained the presenter of Big Heads on the podcast microphone WAKE. If the host saw his friend less regularly over the last ten years, he recognizes that this family that she founded allowed him to be less “isolated” than before.
Laurent Ruquier: his moving tribute after the death of Isabelle Mergault
His friendship with Isabelle Mergault has often been tested, but it has survived the ravages of time. “We got angry X number of times and each time we made up“, he confided, specifying that the actress “never really realized why anyone could have gotten angry with her“. During the comedian’s funeral which took place at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Laurent Ruquier gave a moving speech.
“Smiling was the man’s own. And you, right away, would add: ‘Yes, but it’s always the woman who cleans.’ Because if there was one thing you didn’t like, it was that we took ourselves seriously“, he declared before adding: “I also remember that at Les Grosses Têtes, you said: ‘I don’t want people to laugh at my funeral. I want us to cry’. Don’t worry Isabelle, we’re crying. And it is to hide our tears that we try to smile“.
