Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Talks To Letterman About Her Three-Month Courtship (VIDEO)

On Tuesday night's "Late Show," David Letterman flirted with former model and current First Lady of France Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. After some chit-chat about her nationality (she gave up her Italian citizenship and is now French--to which Letterman responded "If I was Italy, I would try to get you back.") Naturally, the conversation turned to her whirlwind romance with French president Nicholas Sarkozy last year (the couple met on November 13th, 2007 at a dinner party--"We met...and we were both single..." she says--and married on February 2nd, 2008).

Letterman pointed out "pretty quickly after you met, you got married," to which the First Lady responded "Pretty quickly, yes, but it's not so comfortable to be dating when you're the President of France. Maybe if he was a doctor or lawyer we would have been engaged a little longer." Letterman deadpanned, "We had a president who dated, and it didn't work out either."

Of Obama's election, Bruni-Sarkozy said: "France is thrilled, delighted. I think the whole world is delighted." Letterman then asked if her husband gets along with President Bush, and she said "Well, they have to."

WATCH (the marriage talk starts at 3:04):

Comments

[Parisbrooklyn]

She not just pretty, she is a smart and a very cultured woman as per the NY times: "she is a stepdaughter of an Italian tire magnate and classical composer, Alberto Bruni Tedeschi, who is married to her mother, Marisa Borini, a concert pianist. She is rich and well educated (in France, where her family moved in the 1970s to escape a wave of kidnappings in Italy) and speaks three languages."
Her first album "Quelqu'un m'a dit" was especially successful and a pleasure to listen to.

[t squared]

DON'T RETIRE DAVE! WE LOVE YOU!

[yannb]

Pantsuits suit her so much better than they do Hillary.

[NoSillyName]

"...we were both single..." I thought he was still married when they met. No?

[NoSillyName]

Thankfully I missed that show, but she was on one of the morning shows singing two lame songs. I thought she was supposed to be some kind of EuroPopStar or something. Blah.

[chartreuse]

she sings well and she is attractive ... she also has great style ... she is probably extremely well read ... she is no paris hilton ...

[UpstateNY]

Lighten-up. It was a cute interview. She doesn't pretend to be a world-class intellect, she a beautiful woman who seems quite sweet and good-natured. What's wrong with that?

[SouthpawSass]

Dennis Kucinich's wife is no slouch either...

[SouthpawSass]

Well now. I don't think I've seen Dave so smitten before... Oh wait, he's like that with all beautiful women, never mind.

[S-Jane]

A vapid supermodel who used to date all the playboys out there is now the First Lady of France.

It makes me appreciate the Michelle we have more and more. She is truly a class act and very, very hard to follow.

[teresa43]

Seems to me that Dave was very smitten with Carla. She is very soft spoken and he appeared to converse with her in kind.

[JICC]

My French mom-in-law once referred to her in passing as a "four aux saucisses" (oven for sausages). I nearly choked.

[Aabby]

i don't get it.

[Topfeeder]

A receptacle.

[SouthpawSass]

I thought the mom in law reference was funny, but your response was even funnier. Thanks...

[onthevirg]

Thank you planetjeffy the youtube vid. She has a very lovely voice.

[gd7277467]

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy !

Sarkozy's daughter is very young, and very tall in comparison to her father ?

[fanifesu]

Could Bruni be anymore of soulless, shallow & superficial a human being?

[iBlog4Fun]

No, I thought she was very nice and pleasant from the 10 or so minutes.
Did your TV produce a more in depth version of Letterman?

[Kaywane]

haha

[AlixV]

I agree with you, Fanifesu. She seems completely devoided of personality. "It was love at first sight" : oh yeah, and you spent the following three months shoving this down our throats as it was the most important thing in the world...

(I actually stopped watching the news altogether back then, for fear of hearing once again about their every move)

[anghiari]

Oh give it break...the most juvenile mean spirited behavior on huffpost, you would think you landed in high school at lunch hour.