This Morning viewers moved to tears after inspiring interview with Antoine Leiris whose wife died in the Paris terrorist attacks

ANTOINE Leiris moved Christine Bleakley to tears after an emotional interview about losing his wife Helene in the Paris terrorist attacks.

Antoine was speaking to Phillip Schofield and Christine about his book You Will Not Have My Hate.

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Helene was killed when gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall in Paris in November 2015.

Speaking to Phillip and Christine about his life now, Antoine revealed he was trying to cope with his grief while learning to be a single parent to the couple’s young son.
As Christine asked him questions about the terrible attack, she struggled to hold back the tears.

Viewers of the show were just as moved by Antoine and praised Phillip and Christine for their interview.

Helen was one of 137 people who died in the attacks. 368 people were left wounded.

After the Paris attacks, Antoine wrote a Facebook post that was shared thousands of times.

It read: “Friday night, you took an exceptional life - the love of my life, the mother of my son - but you will not have my hatred. I don't know who you are and I don't want to know, you are dead souls.

If this God, for whom you kill blindly, made us in his image, every bullet in the body of my wife would have been one more wound in his heart.

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So, no, I will not grant you the gift of my hatred. You're asking for it, but responding to hatred with anger is falling victim to the same ignorance that has made you what you are.

You want me to be scared, to view my countrymen with mistrust, to sacrifice my liberty for my security. You lost.

I saw her this morning. Finally, after nights and days of waiting. She was just as beautiful as when she left on Friday night, just as beautiful as when I fell hopelessly in love over 12 years ago. Of course I am devastated by this pain, I give you this little victory, but the pain will be short-lived."

The post, which was shared over 70,000 times, continued: "I know that she will be with us every day and that we will find ourselves again in this paradise of free love to which you have no access.

"We are just two, my son and me, but we are stronger than all the armies in the world. I don't have any more time to devote to you, I have to join Melvil who is waking up from his nap. He is barely 17-months-old.

"He will eat his meals as usual, and then we are going to play as usual, and for his whole life this little boy will threaten you by being happy and free. Because no, you will not have his hatred either."

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