Patrick Sébastien will be the surprise guest this Monday, August 22 of the series Camping Paradise broadcast on TF1. The opportunity to evoke a drama that has deeply marked the host. Because yes, under his air of good living, always smiling and positive, hides a man bruised by the death of his son elder sebastiandeceased at the age of 19 from a motorcycle accident in 1990.
“He wanted a motorbike, and then he was quite careful, but it was night, it was summer, he was driving fast, and then there you go… It’s part of my life, we tattooed it every day! There isn’t a day that I don’t think of my son of course“confided the interpreter of Sardines at seven to eight Last year. “I took his first name when it was necessary to find a stage name. Then, we were very close, we were only 16 years apart, I had it at 16,“he had also specified, since his name was originally Patrick Boutot.
“Forced to live with the absent”
An event all the more tragic since Sébastien’s daughter, named Marie, was born five months later, of his first marriage to a certain Martine. Marie, who is therefore the granddaughter of Patrick Sébastien, decided, two years ago, to exceptionally speak out and show her face on the show. Do not touch My TVin which his grandfather participated that evening, to send him a moving message.
“Hello my daddy, so today I wanted to surprise you. Because as you know, in two days, it’s daddy’s birthday. And unfortunately, if he were still with us, he would have been 50 years old. You know that I needed to externalize all that, to create, to compose. And I made a track about him. In the meantime, I kiss you very very much. I love you very much”, had entrusted the pretty blonde. A statement that had deeply touched the ex-companion of Marie Myriam.
“It’s an extraordinary bond that makes you have to live with the absent. That’s how it is, that’s life.” he had replied. As a reminder, he is the father of other children: Olivier (born in 1980 from his marriage to Sylvie), then Benjamin (born in 1991 from his marriage to Fanfan) and Lily (adopted in 2008 with his wife Natalie).