Unvarnished Truth: "Somebody Told Me About. . . Carla Bruni"

Carla Bruni Sarkozy opens the door to her new landmark film, declaring “No more sex, no more drugs, only rock’n’roll!”

When film director George Scott first met then Carla Bruni, she was singing Fernande, a song now banned on French radio. A month later, she became “one of the most interesting women on earth.”

Carla Bruni SarkozyIn her new groundbreaking documentary, Bruni Sarkozy speaks both French and English, as she opens the doors to the presidential Elysée Palace, and invites us into her Paris and Riviera homes. Reading the London Times overview of the film, “Somebody Told Me About… Carla Bruni” is candidly revealing about her life, her career as a supermodel and singer, and her whirlwind marriage to “Sarko”.

A few details:

• Bruni refused to choose between Sarkozy and her music, telling him she wasn’t going to iron his shirts for the next four years.
• Bruni was paralyzed with fear, arriving in Britain last March for the couple’s enormously-successful state visit.
• She describes the discovery that her father was not her biological father as “a relief”.
• Bruni lost her brothers Virginio to AIDS.

The entire article: The Carla Bruni and Nicholas Sarkozy show: London Times

The First Lady of France appeared on David Letterman a few months ago, to promote her new album Comme Si de Reien N’Etait. Above, Bruni singing. Below, the Letterman interview.