From homophobia to racism: Brigitte Bardot’s biggest

Brigitte Bardot died on December 28 aged 91, following months of declining health.

The French actress, who was best identified for her work in And God Created Woman, had confronted two latest hospitalizations in the months main up to her passing.

In October 2025, Brigitte spent three weeks in the hospital as she wanted to bear a process that her workplace initially described as “minor surgery.” However, French media studies indicated the operation was a part of a treatment plan for an unspecified however “serious illness.” Then, in November, she was admitted a second time for about 10 days due to issues or follow-up treatment associated to the same ongoing health concern.

Her reason for loss of life has not yet been revealed.

However, following the star’s loss of life, her controversial past has as soon as again been introduced to light, one mired with racism, homophobia, and anti-feminism. 

From the Nineties, the famed actress had been convicted 5 instances in French courts for “inciting racial hatred.” These convictions stem from her criticisms of immigration, Islam, and the ritual slaughter of animals by Muslims in France. She also expressed xenophobic and Islamophobic views in her guide Un cri dans le silence (A Cry in the Silence).

In flip, she was fined six instances, together with her largest being in 2020 when she had to pay €20,000 ($23,500) after she referred to the inhabitants of Réunion island as “degenerate savages” with “savage genes.” In whole, Brigitte paid €50,000 to €55,000 ($59,000 to $65,000) in fines for racist crimes.

Brigitte had also been accused of being an anti-feminist after she dismissed the #MeToo motion as “hypocritical” and “ridiculous.” The 91-year-old even went so far as to say many actresses “tease” producers to get roles and then declare harassment to acquire publicity.

Throughout her life, Brigitte had also been a critic of the LGBTQ+ community, as soon as referring to homosexual people as “fairground freaks” and complaining about the visibility of transgender people.

Politically, she has often been referred to as a “Neo-Nazi,” due to her aforementioned views and alignment with the far-right. 

Brigitte was a staunch supporter of Marine Le Pen, and the National Front, a far-right French political social gathering. Additionally, her third husband, Bernard d’Ormale, was a former advisor to the social gathering’s founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Away from politics, Brigitte additional confronted controversy in her private life, particularly surrounding her son, whom she has brazenly admitted wanting to abort. 

Brigitte famously resented her being pregnant together with her only son, Nicolas Charrier, describing it as an “ordeal” and evaluating it to a “tumor.” In 1997, she also confronted a lawsuit concerning her phrases about her son and his father, as she wrote she would have most well-liked to “give birth to a little dog.” They had been awarded damages for emotional misery.