Sympathetic on the screen, Jacques Martin could sometimes be difficult to live with. In a relationship with Danièle Évenou in the 70s, the host of The School of Fans would have made life difficult for his partner for 7 years. In any case, this is what the latter confided in the columns of the magazine Gala 15 years ago. “For seven years, waking up being yelled at, for nothing! He knew that I was anything but mean, I was not going to stand up to him. So, I was going to cry in the arms of my two sons who were too little ones to hear their mother’s tears”.
Angry, the famous presenter was, according to the actress, obsessed with food. “The food made him hysterical. Let it become big, pass again! But his health was deteriorating. If you love someone – which I did, I really loved them – you’d rather be scolded, but put them on a diet!”assured the mother of Frédéric and Jean-Baptiste before evoking the ambivalent personality of his dear and tender. “Afterwards, Jacques became funny, tender, generous again. He tried to be forgiven by throwing jewelry on the bed”.
According to Danièle Évenou, the one who also had a relationship with Marion Game (Scenes of households) was aware of his irascible character. “He spent his time telling me: ‘I’m hateful, I’m unlivable, I know…'”she added during her interview with our colleagues.
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After many years, the two lovebirds have nevertheless ended up putting an end to their story. A break that did not taint their relationship since, even at the retirement home, the former lovers continued to visit each other. “He was waiting for me with a glass of white wine, and he was yelling at me because I was five minutes late… and we were laughing, because, all his life, he had been yelling at me! He was so unhappy! to live in a nursing home with a view of the cemetery. He had no right to return home, on the pretext that he was not a show for young children!” Touching confidences.
VB