“I didn’t imagine it super funny or rock’n’roll !” When Amel Bent talks about her new colleague Nolwenn Leroy, with whom she shares the red armchair of The Voice, it is rather cash. “I didn’t know you at all. Your music, your universe… I said to myself ‘she’s weird!‘”, she confided to Télé 7 jours. It must be said that even if they are both from tele-hook (Popstar and Star Academy), the two singers do not really have the same style.
However, by sharing the scenes of the Enfoirés (they have been participating in it since 2006) and the TV sets, they gradually got to know each other. “I was wrong. Everything changed when I saw her with her family“, explains Amel Bent. Nolwenn Leroy confirms: “It was at the Union des artistes gala. My mother and my sister were there. Something happened“.
“We talked. Amel had tears in her eyes, because she realized that we had this common point of being close to our mothers, our families“, recalls the Breton singer. The magic ends up operating when the two women become mothers. “I was overwhelmed with emotion. I saw her evolve, become a mother at a time when I too was thinking of becoming one“.
Amel Bent, pregnant with her third child, is indeed the mother of two little girls, Sofia and Hana, born in 2016 and 2017. Nolwenn Leroy, meanwhile, welcomed a son, Marin, in 2017 from his love with the tennis player Arnaud Clement. However, the young woman knows that she can sometimes have a difficult approach.
“I don’t have many friends, she explained to the magazine. And I realized that I could reflect this image, yes, a little distant. I do not know where it comes from“Happy that Amel Bent finally understood”his universe“, she integrated The Voice for the first time this year after several missed opportunities.