Clémence Castel and Mathieu Johann broke up in 2019. The adventurer of Koh Lanta last seen on the show in 2021 in the edition The legend, fell in love with another. A woman named Mary. Guest on the show The Kindergarten house (France 2), the young woman told her crush for her partner but also the way she announced her homosexuality to the one who became known in 2004 thanks to the star Academy.
It was misunderstanding
It’s a whole family that has been turned upside down since the ex-couple is the parent of two boys: Louis (born in 2010) and Marin (born in 2014). But before the children learned of their parents’ separation, Clémence Castel had to announce to the man she thought was the one in her life that she was leaving him for another. A complicated moment as she told it. “It was a difficult moment, he is the father of my children, he is someone I respect a lot. My goal was obviously not to hurt him but I told him about it right away. If I remember correctly I had to discuss it with Marie one Thursday, he was away and as soon as he got back I talked to him about it. It’s not in my character to lie to someone. I couldn’t see myself cheating on him or having a double life. (…) He kinda fell off his chair which can be completely understood. Myself when I realized it was a total upheaval so I can only understand his upheaval. It was misunderstanding, a lot of questions and a little anger too. Which can be understood because he saw everything crumble in a way. We had to find the right words, reassure him. I tried to do my best“, she explains.
The parents of Louis and Marin announced their separation before discussing their mother’s homosexuality. “I felt that with regard to Marie, we had to wait a little longer, wait for things to settle down. It was someone they had met briefly before. And then, we first spent a day together, then Marie came to sleep at home for an evening or two… We did it at our own pace.“, she explained. As the apprentice Robinson clarifies next, her children are “his priority” and she thought a long time before their “impose a separation then a life with another woman“Legitimate questions but everything went well.
I felt a little ashamed
Clémence Castel also returned to her meeting with Marie: “She was a person with whom I worked, I am the manager of a café concert, we had a professional and friendly relationship. She’s also an engineer and she had to leave my cafe to devote herself to her real job and it had an effect on me when I knew I wasn’t going to see her anymore.“Feelings were born and the mother understood that she had an attraction for Marie but that she did not admit it to herself.”I was putting this under the rug and her leaving was the trigger“, she continues.
The couple took a long time to form because for many months, Clémence Castel kept everything to herself. She explains : “I felt a little shame clearly, I couldn’t believe this could be it, I had a family… It allowed me to ask myself the right questions and not be influenced. I think I’ve been attracted to women before, I wasn’t ready to take it on. At 34, it was the right time for me and the right person too.And to continue:I didn’t know if Marie had reciprocal feelings, I didn’t know her relationship status, I just knew that I had feelings for her. At some point, I needed to talk to him about it, to get rid of it. She was surprised but it was an opportunity to tell me that it was mutual, we felt the same thing. It was a bit of a leap into the void.“
The two women now live together. Marie was adopted by the children of Clémence Castel and they are PACS.