Nicolas Sarkozy's ex wife backs Valerie Trierweiler In an interview in Saturday's Le Monde magazine, Mrs Attias, who divorced Mr Sarkozy five months after he was elected president, said the Trierweiler Twitter scandal seemed "trivial," and that she "doesn't judge." "I myself was knocked down enough like that, for such little things," she said, while adding that the role of First Lady was "ambiguous," and required, "knowing how to hold one's temper." Miss Trierweiler sparked a political drama when she wished "good luck" to the Socialist rival of Miss Royal, mother of Mr Hollande's four children, who was fighting for a parliamentary seat in western La Rochelle. Mrs Attias entirely gave up her role as First Lady when she divorced Mr Sarkozy, later marrying husband Richard Attias, and famously said that the idea of being France's Premiere Dame "bored" her. Uninvolved with French politics since leaving the country for Dubai and then New York, where she works on her global foundation for women, Mrs Attias told Le Monde: "I don't feel like judging Nicolas Sarkozy's five-year term. I left, I left French politics, it would be inappropriate if I passed judgment. However, while he was running for re-election, she still managed to Tweet in English: "Good luck to Nicolas Sarkozy who is starting his campaign again." During her then-husband's 2007 presidential election, Mrs Attias had refused to vote at all. In March, she did cast a ballot, she told Le Monde, but would not say for whom.