India, May 14 -- French President Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron have been hit with new claims suggesting that the French president might have been cheating on his 73-year-old wife. Journalist Florian Tardif claimed in his latest book an an interview with RTL France that Brigitte allegedly found steamy messages exchanged between Macron and Iranian-born actor Golshifteh Farahani, leading to her slapping the president in Hanoi. The incident was caught on camera last year.

These allegations appear in Tardif's newly released book An (Almost) Perfect Couple.

Tardif claimed during an interview with RTL France that tensions escalated after Brigitte saw messages from Farahani on Macron's phone shortly before slapping him.

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