Brigitte Macron to Provide "Scientific Proof" She Is a Woman

Speaking to the BBC, the couple’s lawyer said France’s first lady had found the accusations “incredibly upsetting” and they had disrupted Macron’s career.

“I don’t want to suggest that it somehow has thrown him off his game. But just like anybody who is juggling a career and a family life as well, when your family is under attack, it wears on you. And he’s not immune from that because he’s the president of a country,” Tom Clare said.

“It is incredibly upsetting to think that you have to go and subject yourself, to put this type of proof forward,” he said.

“It is a process that she will have to subject herself to in a very public way. But she’s willing to do it. She is firmly resolved to do what it takes to set the record straight.

“If that unpleasantness and that discomfort that she has of opening herself up in that way is what it takes to set a record straight and stop this, she’s 100 per cent ready to meet that burden.”

Explaining their decision to take legal action, Macron said last month: “This is about defending my honour. Because this is nonsense.

“This is someone who knew full well that she had false information and did so with the aim of causing harm, in the service of an ideology and with established connections to far-Right leaders.”