France's President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron (R) visit the exhibition at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens on April 25, 2026.Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images

Macron allies deny Brigitte slapped French president over texts with Iranian actress – POLITICO

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PARIS — Team Brigitte is slapping back against allegations her relationship isn’t perfect.

A person close to the First Lady, granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, told POLITICO that Brigitte Macron “has categorically denied” allegations that her dust-up with her husband last year caught on camera was due to revelations of his purported relationship with an actress.

The claim was made in a new book about the pair, “An (almost) perfect couple,” by Paris Match journalist Florian Tardif. Tardif writes in his book, which went on sale Wednesday, that Brigitte “lost her temper” while the two were on the plane in Vietnam after discovering by mistake a message on his phone from Iranian-French star Golshifteh Farahani.