[3][4] In a 1987 interview with Playboy, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who refused to pay alimony to Pierrette, said that "If she needs any money, all she has to do is clean".
Pierrette Le Pen then reacted by accepting Playboy's offer to pose in a semi-nude maid's outfit, the photos appeared on the 23rd issue of the magazine, under the title "Madame Le Pen doing the cleaning while naked".
Not receiving a pension, she was then hosted by friends near La Rochelle, but then managed to reconnect with her daughters, first Marie-Caroline and Yann, then Marine with whom she had no longer had any relationship since she was fifteen years old.
[11][12] Her three daughters first rent an apartment for her, then convince their father to accommodate her: Jean-Marie Le Pen then welcomes his ex-wife in a pavilion located on the family mansion in Montretout.
Pierrette Lalanne then published a press release in which she regretted her past statements regarding her ex-husband.