Benjamin Biolay who plays Julien Lacoste in the series Rebecca (TF1) alongside Anne Marivin, Clotilde Courau and Samir Guesmi, has long suffered from alcohol problems. The 48-year-old actor, dad to Anna (18) whom he had with his former partner Chiara Mastroianni and a second daughter whose name is unknown, has never hidden his destructive habits, which now belong in the past. “I drank too much, it’s the trap of shyness. I was dropping bottles of vodka like whey, didn’t feel like I was drunk when I was walking chaos“, he declared to the magazine Grazia in 2012.
The interpreter of Grand Prize was able to react in time. And to avoid the worst, he no longer takes any risks. “I treated myself the hard way, I forbid myself to have alcohol at home because I know that at the slightest stroke of distress or feeling of injustice, I will dive. It’s a gear that I don’t want more. I hang out less at night too, even though I still have such a hard time falling asleep, I’m starting to find it nice to stay at home. And if I go out, it’s for fun, not to get drunk. I changed, well, I think …“
Benjamin Biolay, who had a story with singer Vanessa Paradis, knew how to fight his old demons. In 2016 in the columns of Parisian, he confided to have definitely wiped out the past. “Before, I was a machine to destroy myself. I could end up all alone at home, by alcohol, drugs, sadness: not sleeping, eating badly. Since then, I take care of myself. take care of my health, I play sports “.
Benjamin Biolay today shares his life between his art (music, cinema) and his family. Young dad, of two daughters about whom we do not know much, he does not hesitate to go to the other side of the world to spend time with one of them, who lives in Argentina, as he has. revealed in 2020 in France Days.
He also explained that he had a bad experience during periods of confinement. “I have lived through difficult times. Of course, with my family, with my older daughter, but stuck in Paris, far from the house where I like to stay, near Sète. Far of my granddaughter, who lives in Argentina. And absolutely amazed at what we were going through. I still wonder about those who claimed to have loved this moment. I had him in hatred “.