Michelle Yeoh, how her partner Jean Todt’s twenty-year love was born (with her at the Oscars) – Corriere.it

“Thank you, for all the little boys and girls watching me tonight. This is a beacon of possibility, to understand that dreams come true, and never let anyone tell you that you are past a certain age,” said Best Actress winner Michelle Yeoh, prima donna on stage at the Academy Awards. Asia to win this prestigious award. At the awards ceremony Yeoh, star of the film «Everything Everywhere All at Once» (winner at the 2023 Oscars with 7 statuettes won), arrived together with his historic partner, Jean Todtpresident of the FIA ​​from 2009 to 2021 and former CEO of Ferrari.

It was precisely an event linked to the red from Maranello (with which Todt won eight F1 world titles) that set the scene for the first meeting between the two, in 2004 in Shanghai in China. The actress, at the time recovering from the relationship that ended with the US cardiologist Alan Heldman, was married from 1988 to 1992 with the Hong Kong entrepreneur Dickson Poon, while Todt has a son, Nicolas – today manager of various pilots, among including the Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc and Mick Schumacher – born in 1977 from a previous story.

The couple is often on the road: the former Ferrari team principal said in a 2019 interview that he and Michelle spend “about 185 days on the road, about 70 in France and 100 in Geneva”. Yesterday the journey stopped on stage at the Dolby Theater for the most important moment in the career of the Malaysian actress: «Moment of pure grace and immense happiness! What a trip! – Todt wrote on Twitter a few hours ago -. So proud of Michelle that she received the Oscar for best actress ».