Since 1999, Gilbert Montagné has enjoyed happy days with Nikole. Husband and wife share the perfect love and have even worked hand in hand for several decades. But they didn’t have any children…
His words are rare, but Nikole, the wife of Gilbert Montagné, recently spoke of their beautiful love story in the columns of France Sunday. Before making his heart beat, she was first his friend. When they met, the lovebirds were both going through a stormy divorce. But, according to the main person concerned, the game was worth it!
Why do Gilbert Montagné and his wife have no children? “We each had a difficult divorce.”
It was in 1999 that the singer of the intergenerational hit We’re going to love each other and his sweetheart said yes. But they never had a child together! Asked about this decision, the 74-year-old singer’s wife made no secret: “It was a choice on my part. He would have really liked to expand the family”. “But since we each had a difficult divorce and between us we already have five children, it didn’t seem bad to me.”she added. It should indeed be remembered that she was the happy mother of three children, and that her artist husband had two boys, Éric and Nicolas, with Maureen Byrne, his first wife.
“Then, I saw the possibility of working with him dawning and therefore the difficulty of following him with a child. Because I am one of those wolf mothers who keep their young close to her”finally concluded the septuagenarian. Now grandparents seven times, Gilbert Montagné, who continues to earn money thanks to his hit The sunlights of the tropicsand Nikole takes advantage of it differently. “They are all so different. And we have to take advantage of it, because it goes by so quickly. There is one who is already starting law school, I can’t believe it. Time flies at a dizzying pace, and life reminds us every day that we are really little. So let’s take advantage of every moment that it offers us”said grandmother gaga.
Gilbert Montagné: this “quite a story” who upset his blended family
From the beautiful love story of Gilbert Montagné and Nikole was born another romance. A “quite a story” as the clan leader likes to describe it. One of Nikole’s daughters, Cécile, married one of her husband’s sons, Éric! A scenario worthy of the greatest romantic comedies which even gave birth to a young woman now aged 18, Mia. “We fell out of the closet a bit. Both of us thought we wouldn’t like it. So we talked on the sly. Cécile even made us believe for a while that she was seeing a ‘Roger’. Which made me think she was with an elderly person”detailed Nikole in France Sunday.
Before adding some details: “One evening, Gilbert and I were surprised to come across them both, even though Éric assured us that he was simply walking Cécile to the metro. But another time, Éric, who had a phone problem, borrowed mine… And when I received a little later passionate messages like ‘I kiss you everywhere’, my doubts were confirmed”. “Everyone knew, except Gilbert and me! It was funny to us, but I was relieved that it wasn’t his girlfriend’s father”concluded the one to whom Gilbert Montagné dedicated his last album, Love in his hands.
