France's Macron opens up about love to autistic interviewers
A group of “atypical journalists” on the autism spectrum got France’s 45-year-old president to talk about himself with unusual and illuminating candor in a televised interview this weekend
By JOHN LEICESTER
Published - Jan 08, 2023, 08:48 AM ET
Last Updated - Jun 23, 2023, 03:21 AM EDT
LE PECQ, France (AP) — The question for France's president about his teenage romance with a teacher at his high school was so close to the bone, so eye-popping in a country where politicians largely keep their private lives to themselves, that the interviewer couldn't quite rustle up the courage to ask it.
So he got Emmanuel Macron to pose it to himself.
“He is the president," the French leader said, reading the question out loud from a piece of paper his interviewer handed to him.
“He should set the example and not marry his teacher.”
