Maryse Burgot, great reporter of France Télévisions, left by her husband after years of love: “It was not my choice”

His face and voice are well known to viewers of France Télévisions. Maryse Burgot Covers conflicts and war around the world for years. This is how she went to Kosovo, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan or the Middle East. She also officiated from London and Washington. A life at 1000 at the time she tells in her work called Far from my home: big reporter and daughter of peasantspublished in 2024 by Fayard editions. But if there is a subject on which she is usually little talkative, it is her private life. And yet, the 61 -year -old journalist split the shell at the podcast microphone Quincanailles.

Faced with Marie-Pierre Benitah, Maryse Burgot gives herself up. And she even talks about his divorce with his ex-husband, who left him after years of love. Her interlocutor, who indicates that the journalist is “separated for a few years“, asks her if she is as adventurous in love as at work.”It is certain that I am much more adventurous than I was before. Before, it’s simple, I was married and so here it is. And I was very very good like that besides“, says Maryse Burgot. And to reveal that the divorce was imposed on him:”It was not my choice This life that I lead today. I think I have so much a taste for life it happened. It was not what I wanted.“It was therefore the man who shared his life who made the decision to leave her.

Maryse Burgot divorced and not looking for a “man who has money”

Since then, she has adapted to this new life: “So I invented another way of living. I live quite freely and I advise women of my age to live freely and to try adventures. And then we are at a time of his life, very frankly, where I I don’t need to look for a man who has money. I’m fine, I’m independent, I work. There is not all those things where it should not be this, not that it is that. I do not make a collection, this is not the idea at all. And it’s not pink every day, I’m not saying it’s an extraordinary life.“Today, Maryse Burgot, mother of two boys named Angelo and Noah, relativizes:”I did not choose it, it imposed itself on me. And I even think it’s a gift. I think that basically, everything I live today, I would not have experienced it. And finally, that’s good. This is why I often say, when I have friends who separate from their husbands in pain, ‘you know, at one point, it will be good, I assure you’.“