We tried, says Sarkozy’s wife

PARIS: Cecilia Sarkozy said she and her ex-husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, had never lied about their marriage, in an interview that appeared on Saturday in the weekly magazine Elle.

“I always acted and thought for my family and wasn’t calculating. Nicolas and I never lied. We tried to rebuild, save our relationship, right up until the end,” she said in response to suggestions that they could be “accused of having lied during the election campaign in playing a united couple.”

The notoriously difficult relationship of the Sarkozys was of interest in the run-up to the prez polls, fuelled by the fact they were rarely seen together.