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French President Emmanuel Macron admits in a bombshell new book that he is “still a child” — and his much-older wife says he has granny issues and needs to be “psychoanalyzed.”

The 48-year-old head of state acknowledged in the telling biography that his youth was dominated by strong older women — his grandmother and later, his future wife, who is 24 years his senior — and that the situation robbed him of a childhood.

“Me, I’m still a child. I have never been a teenager. I don’t like teenagers. I don’t understand them. My wife does,” Macron told his biographer, Catherine Nay, according to the Times of London.

French President Emmanuel Macron is married to his former high-school drama teacher, Brigitte Macron, who is 24 years older than he is. REUTERS

Nay, a veteran political journalist, interviewed Macron, his wife Brigitte — who he met when he was 15 and she was 39 — and multiple childhood friends for the tome.

The author depicted Macron’s grandmother, Manette, a retired school headmistress, as a domineering woman who looked to mold her grandson into her “masterpiece.”

To do this, she “sequestered” him in his studies and became enraged when he started dating a girl at 14, according to Nay.

Macron only regained his grandmother’s affections when he promised, “I won’t look at girls anymore,” according to Nay, who added that the future leader of France was far closer to Manette than to his parents.

The biography claims Macron made all the moves on his wife. France 3 documentary

Macron’s wife also admitted the influence that Manette had on her husband’s life.

“Emmanuel still hasn’t buried his grandmother. He hasn’t even replaced her. He ought to be psychoanalyzed,” Brigitte told Nay.

Nay described Macron as the driving force in his relationship with Brigitte, who was his drama teacher and one of his friend’s mothers when they met.

Brigitte said her husband has never moved on from his grandmother’s upbringing. Getty Images

She said the then-15-year-old Macron’s romantic feelings for Brigitte amounted to “the seduction of an adult” and claimed he proposed that they write a play together so he could make time for them to be alone.

Brigitte, a married mom of three at the time, later told a friend she asked Macron whether he wanted children of his own.

“No, I want you to look after only me,” he reportedly replied.

The book paints a picture of Macron as someone who can’t take criticism. Getty Images

The book portrayed the young Macron as supremely bright but isolated from his peers, largely friendless and never learning how to accept criticism.

That seclusion has continued into his adult life, where he is increasingly cut off from people while spending his days in the Élysée Palace.

Nay accused Macron of believing he can do no wrong, with the self-confidence that propelled him to election as France’s youngest leader since Napoleon at just 39 giving way to a refusal to ever question his own actions.

“Introspection doesn’t enter his intellectual world. Even when he apologizes, he comes back later to explain that he was right,” Nay said in a recent interview with France Inter radio.

That lack of introspection resulted in him calling snap parliamentary elections in 2024, which left his government without a majority and plunged France into political turmoil.

As Macron enters the last six months of his presidency, the ruthless careerist is now watching his centrist coalition collapse, his country torn apart by its worst riots in decades, and both the populist right under Marine Le Pen and the radical left under Jean-Luc Mélenchon soaring in the polls.

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