France’s first lady Valérie Trierweiler has been hospitalised suffering from stress after she learned of President François Hollande’s alleged affair with an actress, it was reported on Sunday, reports The Daily Telegraph.
The 48-year-old journalist was admitted to a Paris hospital shortly after she heard of the allegations in a gossip magazine that her long term boyfriend had been spending nights in an apartment near the Elysee palace with actress Julie Gayet, Le Parisien newspaper said.
Trierweiler's office confirmed she had been admitted on Friday, after the affair was revealed, to "get some rest and have tests done". She is to be released on Monday.
The news came as the world waited for Mr Hollande to comment on the claims published on Friday by Closer magazine. The 59-year-old leader has not addressed the veracity of the report but has denounced it as a breach of privacy.
In France, however, an opinion poll suggested that a clear majority of voters think the president’s love life is no concern of theirs.
The survey by IFOP said 77 per cent of French voters believe the alleged affair was a private matter.
Eighty-four percent said it would not change their opinion of the Socialist leader whose failure to turn around the ailing economy and bring down stubbornly high unemployment has made him the most unloved French president in modern history.
Read more of this report from The Daily Telegraph.