Brigitte Bardot’s tearjerking promise to estranged son before her death

When she and Charrier divorced, he retained custody of Nicolas and mainly lived with his father’s grandparents.

“I didn’t bring up Nicolas because I needed support, roots,” Bardot later said. “I couldn’t be Nicolas’ roots because I was completely uprooted, unbalanced, lost in that crazy world.”

The 1995 memoir Initiales BB became a huge success, but for Nicolas and Charrier, it was something else. Brigitte described Nicolas as “the object of my misfortune” in the book, which became somewhat of the most talked-about passage. Before its release, her ex-husband and son tried to censor the passages that discussed them. It didn’t work out, and it was released as Bardot had planned.