Lauren Groff wants us all to keep more secrets.

“He’s so narcissistic, right?”

“I want to defend Mathilde,” she says.

Lauren Groff

Credit: Eli Sinkus

“She was entitled to her privacy even within her marriage.

Just because you stand before a judge doesn’t mean you give up your secret landscape.”

Groff also sees Mathilde’s behavior as a “slightly more dramatic version” of the typical woman.

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“I probably would have done the same thing as Mathilde,” says Groff.

“I’m 100 percent behind her decision to do it.”

“I wanted her to be at peace with the decisions she’s made,” says Groff.