“I had never played such a difficult role”, confides Gwendoline Hamon on the poster of “Mom, don’t let me fall asleep” on France 2

Joseph was 17 when he became addicted to anxiolytics. Products prescribed by a shrink to calm his adolescent anxieties. A year later, despite his mother’s fierce fight to get him out of this addiction, he died.

This mother is called Juliette Boudre: she told this drama in the book Mama, don’t let me fall asleep, published by L’Observatoire.

France 2 has decided to adapt it into fiction, with Sylvie Testud directing and a leading cast: Nemo Schiffmann (prize for best male performance at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival), Gwendoline Hamon, Gérard Lanvin and Michaël Youn. The actress Gwendoline Hamon plays the role of Juliette, her friend for 30 years. She lived the tragedy by her side and wanted to be up to it in the film broadcast by France 2 on Wednesday April 26 at 9:10 p.m., followed by a debate on drug addiction hosted by Julian Bugier.

Gwendoline Hamon is Célyne Baÿt-Darcourt’s media guest.