Words that she has not forgotten. Guest on the set of It starts today this Thursday, March 28, Dominique Tapie returned to the last months of her husband Bernard, who died of cancer, on October 3, 2021. On set, Sophie Tapie’s mother returned to a moving exchange that she had with the businessman, a few months before his departure. “When we were on vacation two months before, one afternoon, he came, he asked me to sit next to him, to lie down (…) He took my hand and he ‘said: ‘Are you okay, shall we go?’ I said to him: ‘but where are we going?’ He said to me: ‘You understand, we’re both going.’“
Through these words, Bernard Tapie implicitly asked his wife to die with him. Faced with this wish, which she had not considered, Dominique Tapie replied in the negative: “Bernard, you can’t ask me that. We have children. You can’t ask me to leave.“And the one who was housed by Jean-Louis Borloo following the death of her husband continues:”His sentence was: ‘but I don’t want to leave you, I can’t leave you!’“, explained Dominique Tapie on the set of It begins today, before emphasizing: “We couldn’t talk about that, it was taboo.“
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Dominique Tapie reveals the amount of his retirement: “I receive…”
Since the death of her husband Bernard, Dominique Tapie has been plagued by financial difficulties. Present on the set of At Jordan’s on March 11, the one who must pay 15 million euros to the tax authorities also revealed the amount of her retirement: “1200-1300 euros (…) What is the minimum wage?“, she asked. Following this confidence, Jordan de Luxe asked Nathalie Tapie’s mother-in-law if she needed more to live. The person said fortunately that she had some other sources of income: “I made the audio, it gives me a little something, I have a little bit from my book, I try to make do with it. I also have friends who help me a lot“, she said.
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