- Brigitte Macron has denied claims that she slapped her husband, Emmanuel Macron, last year after reportedly seeing text exchanges between him and actress Golshifteh Farahani.
- The alleged incident occurred during a state visit to Vietnam, which the Elysée Palace initially dismissed as ‘horseplay’.
- A new book by Florian Tardif suggests the slap resulted from a ”dispute” over messages, some of which allegedly read “I find you very pretty”.
- Sources close to Mrs Macron told Le Parisien that she “categorically denied” the account and stated she never looks at her husband's mobile phone.
- This denial comes amidst a history of attacks and conspiracy theories against Mrs Macron, including false claims about her gender and sexuality.
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