Did you end up forgiving this silence?
Forgiveness is not forgetting. Yes I forgave because a life of anger and hatred and resentment… better to stop living. I obviously have an anger in me, which is latent, because my little brother was taken away from me. But I forgave the silence because it was a different time. Now, we talk about pedophilia, about all that, we teach children to talk about it. In my time, we put your hands on your buttocks, we didn’t find it very pleasant but we thought it was normal…
Michel Sardou has, in his own way, had an important role to play in your life…
I didn’t know him much, because I mostly listen to hard rock. I had been told bad things about him but I never listen to what they say about people, because the judgment is often false and hackneyed. The day of the premiere of our play, my little brother told me that he was going to have a complete tracheotomy. I was in a state…no one noticed except Michel, who asked me if I was okay. I told him. He told me : “I have a friend who did it, he recovered, he spoke again very quickly“. He was great. He could see that I was bad about myself. We talked a lot about weight problems, since his mother had suffered from it. He was the one who told me: “You need to take care of yourself, how far are you going to go?“. I didn’t keep it in my life but that’s it, life. It’s made of encounters…
Interview by Yohann Turi. Any reproduction prohibited without the mention of Purepeople.com.