Porn film, Annie Ernaux, Bruno Le Maire... The confessions of the wife and muse of Michel Houellebecq

Lysis Houellebecq, the wife of Michel Houllebecq, speaks for the first time. To defend his couple, entangled in an X movie story. At the start of 2023, the author launched legal proceedings to have the broadcast of an erotic film in which he starred canceled. In question ? A compromising scene as well as an unfulfilled contract clause. After appealing, Michel Houellebecq will finally be able to watch the film before it is broadcast and object to a few images. Despite the writer's obstructions, the film will still see the light of day.

Asked by Paris Match, the 30-year-old, who also appears in the short film, believes that "it's a story put together from scratch by a group of people who seek to get a boost by using the image of my husband". She claims that she and her husband were tricked. According to her, this group would have “bribed a hotel employee to obtain a double of the room that I occupied with Michel, without our authorization”. “I was bruised by the affair of the porn film, she laments. I have lost friends, especially right-wing Catholics.” Michel Houellebecq, who in his defense explained that he signed this contract because he was depressed and had been drinking, will release a pamphlet entitled A few months of my life this Wednesday, May 24, relating this episode.

Lysis Houellebecq also talks about her friendships, especially with the Sarkozy couple. "I have very good memories of a dinner at their house, the Seigner-Polanski couple was invited," she says. Her husband was awarded the Legion of Honor in 2019 by Emmanuel Macron. At this ceremony, former President Nicolas Sarkozy was also present. She also explains that she is close to Bruno Le Maire, who appears in her husband's latest novel. “He is a very dear friend of Michel. I consider him to be a man of refined spirit and even a romantic,” she said.

On the other hand, the wife of Michel Houellebecq does not make much of the writer Annie Ernaux, last Nobel Prize for literature. “French feminism would be destroyed if it were represented by Annie Ernaux! This woman thinks her personal story is a splendid anthropological example. But imagining that passing the Capes of Letters turns you into a high-class person, sorry, but isn't that a bit naïve? If you are interested in the problems of social classes, read Balzac , castigates it.

Chinese-born poet, Lysis Houellebecq, whose real name is Qianuyn, has been married to the writer since 2018. But she asserts her independence both in her couple - "I am lucky to have an apartment entirely at my disposal, independently of my husband" - and on her blog where she is not afraid to expose her body. Because, she says, "I assume my feminine exhibitionism".