Concern and confusion over the health of France's First Lady Valerie Trierweiler are mounting with her employer, Paris Match, reporting that her family were "worried" for her and that her teenage son had been unable to visit her in hospital.
The weekly magazine, for whom Trierweiler currently writes a literary column, made the statement in a cryptic post on its website on Friday, a day after she was visited in her Paris clinic by Hollande for the first time since her admission a week ago.
Trierweiler, who had been described as suffering from nervous exhaustion and low blood pressure, had been planning to discharge herself from the hospital on Friday and had intended to go to a presidential residence in Versailles, a historic city outside Paris, to continue her recuperation, France's best-known magazine said.
"The family of our colleague are worried," it added.
"On Friday afternoon, for the first time since she was hospitalised, her youngest son, who is 16, was not able to visit his mother at the Pitie-Salpetriere (hospital).
"In contrast to previous days, Valerie Trierweiler is no longer answering her telephone. Our information is that she had taken the decision to leave the hospital today. She had wanted to go to the official residence La Lanterne, in Versailles, to continue her convalescence."
Paris Match did not immediately respond to AFP's requests for clarification of their statement and aides to Trierweiler could not be immediately contacted.
Le Point, a highly-respected, high-brow news magazine, reported Friday that Trierweiler admitted herself to hospital after "taking one pill too many" in despair but ruled out a serious suicide attempt.
Hollande meanwhile was reported by Closer magazine to have possibly started his affair with Julie Gayet "two years ago" although it was vague about the exact timing.
In its latest revelations about a saga that has made headlines around the world, Closer magazine said Hollande had been introduced to the actress and socialist activist during campaigning for the 2012 vote and fell for her immediately.
Hollande's failure to visit Trierweiler until Thursday evening had fuelled speculation that he has decided to end the relationship with Trierweiler, for whom he left Segolene Royal, the mother of his four children, in 2005.
Share
