François Ruffin “sometimes tender, sometimes distant”: extremely rare testimony from his ex Johanna Silva on their relationship

But this « brunette with a very white complexion », who has released a book on their relationship in recent days, Love and the Revolution, remains in the shadows even if she is aware that it « goes beyond the scope of work and friendship ». She also came out of their relationship « exhausted and unhappy »: « I wanted him to know that I am a stylish girl », she says today. To the point of managing everything in the life of the forty-year-old, from schedules to “bobos and egos in an environment of dominant males”.
Different visions
« I realize that I wanted to have a guide, to be in total fusion. I saw us as Sartre and Beauvoir, a beautiful and powerful couple. It was a fantasy. François was sometimes tender with me, other times distant. He was never clear and he did not take my suffering into account,” she explains today. A vision which ultimately caused their breakup in 2019. She is 30 years old, he has just passed his forties.
Both realize, after five years at this pace, that their visions are no longer aligned: « Ultimately, we did not have the same vision of politics. François sometimes saw people only as means, while I “I tried to always consider everyone as an end,” she says.
A different vision which does not prevent him, today, from continuing to espouse the same ideas as him. But when she left Montreuil for Marseille, the young woman rediscovered her independence and her joy of living. She surely observes from a little further the journey of her ex-companion, father of two pre-teens, and who is emerging as one of the most popular left-wing candidates for the future presidential elections…