Dominique Tapie, who was the wife of Bernard Tapie for 52 years, went through all the trials of the businessman’s life with him… And in particular prison. This October 5, she reveals how the couple managed to cope with this complicated period.
Among those who knew the secrets of a lasting couple, there were undoubtedly the Tapies. Dominique has spent her entire life, since the age of 19, with her husband Bernard Tapie. This October 5, for a video on the Instagram account of Lou, A brand new media which is aimed at women and talks about women, she looked back on her fifty-two years of life together with her husband, the businessman who died in October 2021. On the occasion of the release there a few weeks before the Netflix mini-series Tapieon which she has a very strong opinion, she notably took advantage of this interview revealing a secret which allowed her to keep her marriage going… despite the crazy anger that her husband sometimes made his family suffer.
Prison, a test for Bernard Tapie
A rather daring secret that she still revealed. In the same way that she recounted how her husband’s bad character could be reflected, notably on one occasion when the businessman had cooked for his family but, unhappy with their lack of responsiveness to come to the table, he threw his entire dish on the ground. Finally, Dominique Tapie revealed how her relationship and her husband held up when Bernard Tapie was incarcerated at the Santé prison in Paris in 1997. “When my husband was put in prison, obviously, it was a disaster. It was a very very complicated period. I couldn’t imagine, as I tell in my book, Bernard locked up because he was a lion in a cage.” first explained the now widowed wife.
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A “little ritual” between the couple to keep their spirits up
The latter had still found a trick to help her husband keep his spirits up: “We had a little ritual to help him get through these difficult times. We said to ourselves that at 10 p.m. every evening we were going to connect through thought and we did it during the five months he was locked up. And he told me it helped him a lot.” When Dominique Tapie was asked if she was angry with her husband for putting her through all these ordeals, she replied and concluded: “Yes, there was a time when I was angry with him, it’s true. But what can I do? when you have the love of your life ? Well, he did something stupid, ok. What do I do ? Especially when he starts having problems with business. I think it’s the role of the woman in his life to be there, at his side and to hold and face the problems together. What drives you forward in life? It’s love, that’s all it is.”
