“Quite disturbing”: Guillaume Canet threatened by an erotomaniac fan of Marion Cotillard

Usually discreet about his private life, Guillaume Canet shared some new secrets on the show Legend, broadcast on YouTube, this Wednesday, January 8. The actor spoke about a misadventure he experienced alongside Marion Cotillard.

© DOMINIQUE JACOVIDES/BESTIMAGEMarion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet at the photocall for the film Blood Ties during the 66th Cannes Film Festival, May 20, 2013.

IN BRIEF

• A couple since 2007, Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard have two children and prefer to live in the shadows.
• This Wednesday, January 8, Guillaume Canet was Guillaume Pley's guest on the Legend podcast.
• The actor and director has made rare confidences about his private life.

To live happily, let's live hidden. This is a proverb that could have been invented by Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard. Since 2007, the two have been living the perfect love affair. From this relationship were born two children, Marcel and Louise, aged 13 and 7. And despite the regular rumors of separation, the two actors have chosen to remain discreet, thus preserving their family cocoon.

“It's my private life, it's my business. I can just tell you that we are a normal family, with difficult times to go through, reconstructions, and that everything is fine”, he declared in 2023 in Le Parisien. This Wednesday, January 8, in the Legend podcast broadcast on YouTube, Guillaume Canet made other revelations about his private life, recounting a dark episode in his life as a couple.

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Guillaume Canet: “it went very very far and too far”

Guillaume Canet was asked about his public life as a guest of Guillaume Pley. “Have you ever had fans who are a little too much”, asked the journalist. The opportunity for the director of the film Les Petits Mouchoirs to share an anecdote. “We had a person with Marion who was… it went very very far and too far“, he said straight away.

And he continued: “It was quite worrying even becausethere were threats. We had to warn the authorities so that it would stop. It's always scary when it goes too far like that.”

Guillaume Canet: Scared by a Marion Cotillard fan

Guillaume Canet then completed his story by specifying the disturbing personality of this fan who entered his private life. “She was actually a fan of Marion, and she had a grudge against me”, he explained. Indeed, this fan presented an erotomaniac profile, that is to say that she was convinced that she was loved by Marion Cotillard.

“It was quite disturbing because, often, these people are people who have a psychological problem […] We want things to go well with the authorities so that they don't have problems behind them. But, at the same time, we need to protect ourselves, we“, he concluded, his expression serious.