In 1996, Brigitte Bardot came out harshly against her only son, Nicolas-Jacques (65), in her book Initiales B.B.: Mémoires, where she confessed that her pregnancy was like "a tumor that had fed on me, that I carried in my swollen flesh, waiting for the blessed moment when I would finally be rid of it. The nightmare reached its climax, I had to accept the object of my misfortune for a lifetime".
She continued her narrative: "Having reached the climax of the nightmare, I had to accept for a lifetime the object of my misfortune (...). I became a mother just when I shouldn't have. I experienced it as a tragedy. That made two of us unfortunate: my son and me."
For those words, the French diva had to answer to the justice system as Nicolas and Jacques Charrier, her father and second husband of the actress, sued her for six million French francs (just over 900,000 euros) in damages and another five million (around 750,000 euros) to the publisher Grasset. A year later, the judge ruled that she had to pay 150,000 francs (almost 23,000 euros) to her family members and another 100,000 (15,200 euros) francs to the publisher.
Decades earlier, Bardot had made other hurtful remarks that were documented in several biographies. For example, in Brigitte Bardot, plein la vue, the author Marie-Dominique Lelièvre reveals that the actress commented: "I would have preferred to give birth to a puppy".
The childbirth was an odyssey. It happened in her Parisian home. The windows were covered with anything to prevent the paparazzi from getting the exclusive. Not even holding the baby against her chest caused her any emotion. Nine months later, she attempted to take her own life.
When she divorced Jacques Charrier in 1963, the child remained under her exclusive guardianship. Bardot wanted nothing to do with him. She showed no interest during his adolescence and did not care about what would become of his life. She completely disregarded his studies.
Nicolas eventually graduated as an engineer and pursued an artistic career as a painter. He settled in Norway, where he met model Anne-Line Bjerkan, whom he married while still very young, and they are parents to Anna-Camille and Thea-Josephine, who in turn have given three great-granddaughters to the French legend, ranging in age from 7 to 10 years old.
Until the early nineties, the relationship between Brigitte and Nicolas-Jacques was practically non-existent, but with the help of her last partner, Bernard d'Ormale, the families began to have a somewhat more cordial relationship. In fact, Bardot and d'Ormale got married in Norway. It was an intimate and discreet wedding.
In an interview in 2020 with Gala magazine, she confessed that "yes, I am the great-grandmother of three little Norwegians who do not speak French and whom I rarely see" and added that "as for the 'gaminoos', my great-grandchildren, I can't believe I have great-grandchildren... but they don't speak French".
It is known that her son and his descendants used to visit her once a year at La Madrague and that the relationships were somewhat more cordial.