The companion of the novelist comes out of silence in Paris Match. To deliver her side of the story regarding the affair of the erotic film in which she and her husband appear. And deliver some secrets about his life with the author of Elementary particles.
Lysis Houellebecq, wife of Michel Houllebecq, speaks for the first time. To defend his couple, entangled in an X movie story. At the start of 2023, the author launched legal proceedings to have the broadcast of an erotic film in which he starred canceled. In question ? A compromising scene as well as an unfulfilled contract clause. After appealing, Michel Houellebecq will finally be able to watch the film before it is broadcast and object to a few images. Despite the writer’s obstructions, the film will still see the light of day.
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Asked by Paris Match, the 30-year-old, who also appears in the short film, believes that “It’s a story made up from scratch by a group of people trying to get a boost by using the image of my husband”. She claims that she and her husband were tricked. According to her, this group would have “bribed a hotel employee to get a duplicate of the room I was occupying with Michel, without our permission”. “I was bruised by the affair of the filmshe laments. I have lost friends, especially right-wing Catholics.” Michel Houellebecq, who in his defense explained that he signed this contract because he was depressed and had been drinking, will release a pamphlet entitled few months of my life this Wednesday, May 24 relating this episode.
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Friend of the elites
Lysis Houellebecq also talks about her friendships, especially with the Sarkozy couple. “I have very good memories of a dinner at their house, the Seigner-Polanski couple were invited“, she confides. Her husband was awarded the Legion of Honor in 2019 by Emanuel Macron. During this ceremony, the former President Nicolas Sarkozy was also present. She also explains that she is close to Bruno the Mayorwho appears in her husband’s latest novel. “He is a very dear friend of Michel. I consider him a man of refined spirit and even a romantic”she believes.
On the other hand, the wife of Michel Houellebecq does not make much of the writer Annie Ernauxthe last Nobel Prize in Literature. “French feminism would be destroyed if it were represented by Annie Ernaux ! This woman thinks her personal story is a splendid anthropological example. But imagining that ping the Capes de Lettres turns you into a big bourgeois, sorry, but isn’t that a bit naive? If you are interested in social cl issues, read Balzac”she berates.
Chinese-born poet, Lysis Houellebecq, whose real name is Qianuyn, has been married to the writer since 2018. But she erts her independence as well in her couple – ” I am lucky to have an apartment entirely at my disposal, independently of my husband” – than on her blog where she is not afraid to expose her body. Because, she says, I ume my female exhibitionism ».