Having disappeared from television screens for more than four years and his forced departure from Canal+, following accusations of sexual assault made in particular by journalist Marie Portolano, Pierre Ménès still continues to analyze football news. It is now on his YouTube channel that he answers questions from his fans every week.
And one of them questioned him on a very sensitive subject, after having recognized him during a funeral in Lagny-sur-Marne, in Seine-et-Marne (77), last Friday. “Yes, it was mehe confirmed. I didn't want to talk about it but since I have a question…” And the former consultant of
Channel Football Club (62 years old) to confide that he had lost an important woman in his life.
Pierre Ménès in mourning
“My first wife, the mother of my children (Anne and Axel, editor’s note), died of a long illness. It’ll be two weeks – damn already two weeks… – tomorrow (Thursday). She was two years older than me.”explained, visibly touched, the man who has now been in a relationship for fourteen years with Mélissa Acosta, whom he met near La Baule.
“Even though I had not had contact with her for quite a few years, it seemed to me to be the least correction and the least respect to be at her farewell and to support my children in this difficult moment”added Pierre Ménès, without dwelling further on this tragic disappearance which, despite time and distance, seems to have marked him.
