If today Benjamin Castaldi feels like a fish in water, whether in the 6 to 7 that he animates or in Do not touch My TV since 2016, the host has experienced a real crossing of the desert for several years. A period during which, he chained the hard knocks: divorces, scams of which he was the victim, financial worries …
This Thursday, February 3, while Cyril Hanouna was talking about Cheslie Krsyt (Miss USA 2019 who killed herself on Sunday January 30 by jumping from the 29th floor of her building, editor’s note) to talk about the pressure related to notoriety, the columnist 51-year-old shared moving secrets about his own experience.
“I thought about shooting myself in the head”he said, tears in his eyes. “When you are very famous, at the top or at the bottom, there are times when you are totally lost, you no longer know what to hold on to”. Fortunately, to get out of this depression, “You need a strong mind and good support”. “I was not at the end of that because I have children but I thought about it. When I was really at the bottom in the bottom of the toilet and that you add poo on top and that we know more how to do, when you are assigned left to right, that we threaten to put you in prison because you have not paid alimony…”
At the end of 2021, the husband of Aurore Aleman spoke of his financial situation.“I have my past which is heavy. At the end of the month, I have nothing left (…) I am not complaining but here I am in the process of settling everything, the slope is steep”. But after several years of trouble, the father of Julien, Simon, Enzo and Gabriel finally saw the end of the tunnel. “There are a lot worse than me, I’m lucky to have a job, I’m very happy like that”.
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