French President Macron admits, ‘I’m still a child’– while much-older wife says he needs to be ‘psychoanalyzed’: book

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French President Emmanuel Macron admits in a bombshell new book that he is "still a child'' -- and his much-older wife says he has granny issues and needs to be "pscyhoanalyzed.''

French President Emmanuel Macron admits in a bombshell new book that he is “still a child” — and his much-older wife says he has granny issues and needs to be “psychoanalyzed.”

The 48-year-old head of state acknowledged in the telling biography that his youth was dominated by strong older women — his grandmother and later, his future wife, who is 24 years his senior — and that the situation robbed him of a childhood.

“Me, I’m still a child. I have never been a teenager. I don’t like teenagers. I don’t understand them. My wife does,” Macron told his biographer, Catherine Nay, according to the Times of London.

Nay, a veteran political journalist, interviewed Macron, his wife Brigitte — who he met when he was 15 and she was 39 — and multiple childhood friends for the tome.

The author depicted Macron’s grandmother, Manette, a retired school headmistress, as a domineering woman who looked to mold her grandson into her “masterpiece.”

To do this, she “sequestered” him in his studies and became enraged when he started dating a girl at 14, according to Nay.

Macron only regained his grandmother’s affections when he promised, “I won’t look at girls anymore,” according to Nay, who added that the future leader of France was far closer to Manette than to his parents.

Macron’s wife also admitted the influence that Manette had on her husband’s life.

“Emmanuel still hasn’t buried his grandmother. He hasn’t even replaced her. He ought to be psychoanalyzed,” Brigitte told Nay.

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