On Monday, October 25, 2021, Nawell Madani celebrates her 38th birthday. The opportunity to look at the life of this Belgian artist, madly in love with a man who is also an actor, Djebril Zonga.
Nawell Madani and Djebril Zonga meet in 2007, in Portugal, through a mutual friend. On the good advice of his darling, he embarked on modeling in New York, after having attempted a football career, interrupted by a bad injury. “Djebril is a professional soccer player. I immediately notice her beauty. He also seems attracted. We talk to each other, he explains to me that he recently injured his adductors, we have a great evening. We are inseparable friends. Then the spark “, she had told. She explained to Paris Match, in 2016, having spent all his savings “in a book to find him an agent”. Ford, Diesel, GAP, Ralph Lauren, Hennessy … Djebril Zonga then goes on to major contracts.
Once again, it is Nawell Madani who will push him to take acting lessons. “We grew up thanks to each other. After years of hard work, he decided to return to Paris to favor our couple. He wants to be an actor“, she explained, always at Paris Match. First film by the beautiful Djebril: That’s all for me, in 2017. He plays Doum, a young man who lends his apartment to the heroine of the film before usurping his identity.
During the filming, he hears about Ladj Ly’s project: Wretched. He will eventually get the role of policeman Gwada and the film will even be nominated for the Oscars.
Together for nearly thirteen years, Nawell Madani and Djebril Zonga remain discreet about their private life. Confined with her man, the Belgian comedian had confided to have wanted the “quit six times“.”Have you come close to separation? Because I almost left my boyfriend six times! I almost strangled him, handsome or not! It was a disaster, this confinement“she joked.
We imagine that everything has been better since then, since the two actors became parents of a little girl called Louezna Fatima Zonga in September 2021. A long-standing project. “MEven though I don’t stress, I think about it a lot. I have a career to pursue, but the day that happens, I will be the happiest woman “, she confided to Paris Match.