That prompted her to apologize on Monday, with a follow-up<\/a> post on her social media. \u201cHoly s–t, I did not know all that insane s–t Ms. Bardot stood for.\u201d She added, \u201cI do not condone this. Very disappointing to learn.\u201d <\/p>\n Bardot\u2019s organization announced that she had died<\/a> at the age of 91, without specifying how or when. Roan, whose popular song \u201cRed Wine Supernova\u201d names Bardot, wrote on Instagram over the weekend, \u201cRest in peace Ms. Bardot. She was my inspiration for \u2018Red Wine Supernova<\/a>.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n But Roan and her producers appeared not to have realized that after retiring from acting, Bardot had been convicted and fined<\/a> five times for \u201cinciting racial hatred.\u201d<\/a> She repeatedly declared that Muslims were were \u201cinvading,\u201d \u201coverpopulating,\u201d and \u201cdestroying\u201d France, in comments which were widely reported on in both French and English.<\/p>\n Her final marriage was to Bernard d\u2019Ormale, a former adviser to the extreme right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose long leadership of the French National Front was accompanied by downplaying the Holocaust and, eventually, being fined for what he said.<\/p>\n Bardot linked her far-right views to her activism for animals, something which she had quit acting to pursue. But by 2003, she was writing a book, Un cri dans le silence (A Scream in the Silence), which directed abuse at gay men, women in politics, interracial marriages and Islam while praising those who had\u2014in her telling\u2014given their lives in previous generations to repel invaders.<\/p>\n In 2019, she referred to the indigenous people of the French Pacific island of R\u00e9union as \u201csavages,\u201d earning her a fine two years later in a French court of close to $20,000. She had also derided the French version of MeToo, accusing actresses who alleged misconduct by men of being \u201chypocritical, ridiculous, uninteresting.\u201d<\/p>\n While Bardot\u2019s incendiary commentary may have been a blind spot for Roan, it was not for French newspaper Le Monde, which remembered Bardot\u2019s \u201cadvocacy for animals went hand in hand with her Islamophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n The publication also noted that \u201cBardot remained, for three decades, an exception in French culture\u2014the only celebrity to openly defend the far right.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Chappell](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/G265XXXLV5HX5LKJO7KXGWEN4M.jpg\")
After calling Bardot her “inspiration,” Roan followed up with a social media post clarifying that she did not “condone” her far-right views. Erika Goldring\/WireImage <\/p>\n![\"Chappelle](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HO4NU4CMAVDJFBBGIYLQFBOMJA.png\")
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Bardot was convicted and fined five times for \u201cinciting racial hatred.\u201d Bettmann\/Bettmann Archive <\/p>\n![\"Brigitte](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4DVBKCPBHFH7LHV63JKLSGQ2NM.jpg\")
The French actress’s femme fatale persona gained popularity in the United States in the 1950s and 60s. United Archives\/FilmPublicityArchive\/United Arch <\/p>\n