Jérémy Frérot and Laure Manaudou formed a couple who knew how to protect their private life, since their marriage in 2018. “Have formed”, because today we must talk about it in the past tense.
The Olympic swimming champion and the singer have ended their love story. And it was through song that Jérémy Frérot decided to inform the public. With the title Farewell, released last night, the former Fréro Delavega talks about his separation and his life as a dad with alternating custody of his children. A breakup without bitterness, because “the story is not over”, but continues in another form.
“We continue it differently, we have two magnificent children”, specifies the ex-candidate of The Voice At Parisian. The parents of Lou (born in 2017) and Sacha (born in 2021) have every intention of protecting their children. The lyrics of his song are “almost word for word,” he explains, the way they, together, explained the new family situation to their children. “Mom and Dad remain friends and we will remain a team. There was the love that created you and there is the love that elevates you, it’s different but just as powerful,” he recounted.
Divorced Dad
“At one point, I felt the need to get this story out of myself,” explained the 34-year-old singer. Moreover, writing this title was like therapy, because it is not a settling of scores but a “love letter about a separation, something quite positive”.
Jérémy Frérot also underlined that the condition of a father in alternating custody is hardly mentioned in French song. “There aren’t that many songs that talk about a father who divorces and takes care of his children, every other week,” he says, adding: “I’m a really involved dad, like many around me. I wanted to share this life.” Indeed, if we except the title The Divorcedfrom Bénabar, this theme is not very successful.
Laure Manaudou, who was the first French woman to carry the Olympic flame to Olympia on April 16, has not commented on their breakup for the moment.