His only-on-stage did not evoke the Middle Ages and yet. By going to the Ambigu Theater, on the occasion of the Avignon Festival on Thursday July 21, 2022, Frederic Deban was treated to a speech straight out of the medieval era. According to the testimonies of several spectators present in front of the room, the actor was indeed victim of a terrible homophobic attack. The general manager of the room in which he was about to play allegedly insulted him and his co-author, Dominique Lozac’h, before becoming physically violent.
He uttered homophobic insults in front of a witness
The former hero of the series Under the sun – he played Grégory Lacroix, on TF1, for 12 years – don’t intend to stop there. A complaint has been filed with the prosecutor of Aix-en-Provence. On the document, that Purepeople had the opportunity to consult, Frédéric Deban recounts this formidable altercation. “He swore homophobic slurs in front of witnesses and tried to hit us, writes the 57-year-old actor. Insults: ‘Fuck your guy’ and ‘you jerk’. The audience waited in front of the theater and heard everything.“The performance that followed was, despite everything, carried out completely normally.
Frédéric Deban went to the Avignon Festival, not to be attacked for no reason, but to present his show Diary of a deaf man and his misunderstandingsfrom his biographical book Your faces the tinnitus, I no longer hear the sea, published by Guy Trédaniel in November 2016. On his 50th birthday, the actor actually became deaf following a fight. He has suffered from tinnitus and was deaf for 5 years but ended up getting out of this situation thanks to an operation: an implant which allowed him to regain his hearing. Subtitled for the hearing impaired, his only-on-stage aims to raise public awareness of this handicap which has made life difficult for him for many months.