Sophie Grégoire Trudeau has “learnt to cut ties” and “not cling to relationships” after the break-up of her marriage to the prime minister of Canada.

In an interview with The Telegraph, the former first lady said mental health techniques had helped her to deal with her 2023 separation from Justin Trudeau.

“I’ve trained my brain to deal with uncertainty,” she said. “I learned to cut ties and not cling too much to life, to others, to relationships.”

Ms Trudeau, 49, said she had done “a lot of self-regulation” in addition to her work as a “yoga and meditation teacher”.

She met Mr Trudeau when the pair were just schoolchildren and reconnected in 2002 after their paths crossed at a charity event. Over the 18 years of their marriage, they had three children, Xavier James, 17, Ella-Grace, 15, and Hadrien, 10.