On March 25, 26 and 27, Operation Sidaction takes place, a cause dear to the heart of Line Renaud. The 93-year-old actress will unfortunately be deprived of it this year, affected by the Covid-19 which forced her to isolate herself. But all thoughts go to her, starting with that of Mireille Dumas, whose documentary she directed, The thousand and one lives of Line Renaudis broadcast on March 25 on France 3.
The producer looks back on the journey of one of the most emblematic Ch’tis in France, whose popularity commands respect. Talking about her life and her memories has not been easy for her: “Mireille Dumas is a woman who attracts confidences. I do not hide from you that it was sometimes necessary to cut the cameras, so much I was moved“Evoking a specific episode of her childhood with her mother particularly upset her.
Line Renaud spent part of her young years without her dad, “taken prisoner in Germany“during the war. If she was probably not aware of what was really going on at the time, the actress saw her mother in pain: “My mother was worried sick, she let herself waste away and weighed only 35 kilosshe revealed in the pages of TV 7 Days. Thinking of bringing her comfort, my grandmother and her entourage advised her not to worry about this man who had cheated on her all her life. She fell from the clouds. I remember hearing him scream in grief when he heard the news“.
Line Renaud did not become a mother in turn but does not seem to regret it. Children, that’s if she had any thanks to her surrogate daughters, Muriel Robin and Claude Chirac: “They are my loves! If I had had a daughter, maybe she wouldn’t have been as great as them. These are the girls that I chose for myself and they take care of me very well! Muriel and her friend, Anne, even came to live right next to my house, in La Jonchère, to be even closer“. Line Renaud certainly no longer has her mother or Loulou Gasté, the man of her life, but her loving family is always present by her side and will be until the end: “My mother often repeated: ‘Line, you took such good care of Loulou and me. Who will take care of you later?’ She can be reassured because I have two wonderful daughters“Words of love that will please Muriel Robin and Claude Chirac…