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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau on fame: 'One day you're speaking on a stage. The next you're sitting alone by the water'
In a video posted on social media recently, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau tells her followers she wants to share something “quite personal.”
“One day you’re speaking on a stage. The next you’re sitting alone on a bench by the water. Both are sacred,” the 51-year-old wrote in the caption of the video shared on Facebook .
After finishing her breakfast by the water at Toronto’s Harbourfront, she says her life goes from “yesterday giving a speech in Toronto in front of 700 people,” and having people wait in line for her to sign her book, to “then this morning here I am, and you know, nobody’s standing in line, and nobody knows who I am.”
Grégoire Trudeau says she has realized that she can’t get attached to any circumstance in life, and acknowledges with gratitude the privilege she has had.
“As first non-official first lady , I could have believed, well, you know, I’m a first lady,” says Grégoire Trudeau , who was married to former prime minister Justin Trudeau before they separated in 2023 after 18 years of marriage, and still uses his last name.
“Or today, sometimes when people want to take pictures or come to me to give me love and support, I take it in from a place of such realness, where I don’t let it kind of get to my head, I let it get to my heart.”
The title of First Lady does not officially exist in Canada. Although Grégoire Trudeau leaned into the role of the unofficial First Lady, others like Laureen Harper didn’t like the label .
She says when it comes to praise, it’s how we take it in. “And for me, it’s a confirmation of my life mission of how I get to give back to the world with the privilege that I’ve had, even though it’s had dark moments and obstacles.” She adds that the past years have not been easy, “and sometimes I wake up and I’m like, okay, like, what’s next, I can’t see through this darkness, but right now I’m looking at the light.”
Sophie Grégoire’s personal admission comes a few days after Trudeau and his girlfriend Katy Perry attended the premiere of the concert documentary Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival on Monday. It was the first time the couple were spotted at a red carpet event together.
“I saw the show three times, but I wasn’t paying attention to anything but Katy, so I’m looking forward to seeing the show now for the first time,” Trudeau, 54, who appeared smitten by his pop star girlfriend, told Entertainment Tonight during the Monday premiere.
Perry , meanwhile, called him “the love of her life.” During the Q&A round post-screening, the 41-year-old singer reflected on her Lifetimes Tour in 2025.
“I would say now, at the end of 91 shows, I feel like a more grounded person in so many aspects of my life. I am very in love,” US Weekly reports Perry as saying. “Actually, that show was after I met the love of my life, and so I felt very anchored by that,” Perry said of her Paris tour dates in November 2025. “I’m a little bit like a rainbow kite — I fly super high. Sometimes I need to be anchored, so to have that anchor finally makes me feel really whole now.”
The couple were first spotted hanging out in July 2025 in Montreal, a sighting that sparked dating rumours that were officially confirmed when Perry made their relationship Instagram official in December. Earlier this year, Trudeau purchased a $4.26 million home in Montreal’s Outremont neighbourhood.
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