“The events of that period in my life kindled in me a sort of ambition born of insecurity. . . . Ambition didn’t come to me, as it does for many people, from parents who pushed me to succeed, but from a deep-seated yearning to escape from the life I was stuck living.”
From her birth in the late 1960s and modest beginnings in a Montreal suburb to her much-publicized affair with Canada’s top diplomat, Julie Couillard’s life has been a singular journey. In this straight-from-the-heart autobiography, she fires back at the lies, half-truths, and rumours that have swirled around her, and candidly relates both her successes and her reversals of fortune as a model, actress, entrepreneur, and businesswoman. She also relives the most momentous times in her life: the happy years spent with Hells Angels sympathizer Gilles Giguère and the cruel aftermath of his 1996 murder; her brief but tumultuous marriage to Stéphane Sirois, a reformed member of the Rockers biker gang, who after their divorce turned police informant; and her close-up view of the corridors of power in the months during which she was romantically linked to Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier.
Provocative and engaging, My Story recounts Julie Couillard’s spectacular emergence on the national scene.]]>
From her birth in the late 1960s and modest beginnings in a Montreal suburb to her much-publicized affair with Canada’s top diplomat, Julie Couillard’s life has been a singular journey. In this straight-from-the-heart autobiography, she fires back at the lies, half-truths, and rumours that have swirled around her, and candidly relates both her successes and her reversals of fortune as a model, actress, entrepreneur, and businesswoman. She also relives the most momentous times in her life: the happy years spent with Hells Angels sympathizer Gilles Giguère and the cruel aftermath of his 1996 murder; her brief but tumultuous marriage to Stéphane Sirois, a reformed member of the Rockers biker gang, who after their divorce turned police informant; and her close-up view of the corridors of power in the months during which she was romantically linked to Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier.
Provocative and engaging, My Story recounts Julie Couillard’s spectacular emergence on the national scene.]]>