Bruni, who married Sarkozy two years ago after a whirlwind romance, made the comments on Britain’s Sky News television in an interview released on Wednesday and recorded last Friday. Rumors have swept the Internet and the British press over the past three days that both Bruni and her husband were having extra-marital affairs.The Elysee has not commented on the speculation.
Although the Sky interview was made before the rumors surfaced, the reporter did ask Bruni if she trusted Sarkozy, given speculation that he had had affairs before they met. “Oh yes, very much. He would never have affairs. And have you ever seen a picture of him having an affair? Ah, so,” Bruni said, giving her interviewer a piercing stare. Pressed on whether she thought their marriage would last forever, Bruni paused before saying: “I guess marriage should be forever, but, um who knows what happens. I wish it was forever, that’s my hope, but we could be dead tomorrow.”
A feline star of the catwalk turned celebrated chanteuse, Bruni brought considerable glamour to the Elysee in February 2008 when she married the hyperactive Sarkozy, who had divorced his second wife just four months earlier.
However, their quickfire relationship raised eyebrows in France, especially given Bruni’s assertion in a 2007 magazine interview that she was “crazily bored by monogamy.”
