Ducruet Bares His Grief Before The Whole World

Daniel Ducruet is a hard guy. A former bodyguard, he has been known to beat up people during minor traffic flaps.

But when it comes to love, Ducruet is as soft as any sensitive ‘90s male. How do we know this? Well, Ducruet admits as much in the letters of apology that he sent to his estranged wife, Princess Stephanie of Monaco.

“The night after my mistake… I felt dirty, I didn’t dare hug the children, and I couldn’t make love to you,” Ducruet wrote. Drug-laced champagne was the cause, he claimed. “The more I drank, the more I felt different,” he writes. “Very quickly, desire overwhelmed me. It was carnal, brutal and violent, and I couldn’t control it.” By the way, the letter is part of a book, “Letter to Stephanie,” which was reprinted in the magazine Paris Match.

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And we have no plans to use this in our further columns

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Too bad Gene Simmons wasn’t around for the moment

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