At 74, Dominique Tapie participates in season 4 of “traitors”. Bernard Tapie’s widow keeps morale despite the tests. And she can count on a gold friend: Brigitte Bardot.
Dominique Tapie and her daughter Sophie recently locked themselves in a castle for season 4 of the bluff game and m6 confinement, Traitors. The opportunity for the widow of Bernard Tapie – who died in 2021 at the age of 78 following cancer -, to take stock of his current life.
Dominique Tapie was able to count on Brigitte Bardot: “She kept his word”
It’s in Gala That Dominique Tapie decided to express himself. “It was my daughter Sophie who offered to try the adventure with her (…) She said to me: ‘I live Biarritz and you Paris. When we see each other is always with children. It will be a parenthesis for two that will get you out of your problems’. I admit that the idea of spending eight days cut off from the world with Sophie, I liked it well”first said the 78 -year -old woman. Before adding: “I was also motivated by the idea of winning for the benefit of the Bardot Foundation, to give Brigitte a little of what she gave me”.
Because the one who shared the life of Bernard Tapie for 52 years was able to count on the support of the icon when justice has him “Everything seized”. Screened with debts after the death of her husband, she had to resign herself to selling many goods. “At the Combs-la-Ville mill I had animals: horses, ponies, donkeys, sheep … We were called with Brigitte and in two minutes, she told me ‘I take care of everything to place them’. She kept my wish not to separate those who had attached each other. Brigitte was extraordinary!”she said.
Dominique Tapie very surrounded: “I have an active life, a lot of loyal friends …”
Today, Dominique Tapie organizes his life alone. “I always take dance lessons, twice a week. And I walk at least 5 kilometers a day according to the outings of my Vivi dog”she explained. Before entrusting: “I have an active life, many loyal friends around me who help me, including materially. On the death of Bernard, Jean-Louis Borloo, a friend of forty years, took me under his wing. He housed me for a year. When I have a problem, I call him”.
Dominique Tapie can also count on the support of his two children. “I have my son Laurent returned to live in Paris. And I often stay with Sophie, in Biarritz, or to Nathalie, the eldest daughter of Bernard, at La Ciotat. Because my husband is buried in Marseille. I have not been there since November and I miss it”detailed the grandmother of César and Helena, the children of Sophie Tapie and Baptiste Germain.