“It was hell … I was mistreated”: Michèle Bernier recounts a terrible memory

For the second issue of Sunday in the countryside this Sunday, October 30 on France 2, Frederic Lopez received Michele Bernier, Sofia Essaidi and the mentalist Fabien Olicard.

During this program, the first spoke of her childhood memories, especially at school. While everything was going well at first: “I had teachers who were nice to me, I was a very good student”she said, things change around the age of 8: “I arrived in a school, I must have been 7 or 8 years old. And there, it’s been hell. I was the devil’s daughter. My parents weren’t married, I wasn’t well, I was mistreated.”

I went home crying

Charlotte Gaccio’s mother also remembered a traumatic memory about her dress. “The outfit was the worst humiliation of my early childhood, did she say. My mother had given me some clothes and a little red cape, a little beret, and so I go to school very proud on Monday mornings. The director sees me, she takes me out of line and says: ‘Are you at the circus? Are you disguised?’ She took me home to change. And so, I went home in tears.” And to add: “I didn’t dare say anything to my parents because I knew that if I said that to my father, he was going to set the school on fire. That’s why afterwards, I asked to go to school. pension because I was too alone and it was too complicated for me to manage on my own.”

Only daughter of George Bernier (died 2005) better known as Professor Choron and co-founder of the magazine Charlie Hebdo among others, Michèle Bernier arrived at the age of 12 in a pension in the Paris suburbs. The beginning of the good life as she expressed it: I spent three wonderful years. I was at the head table, first everywhere. It was a small structure, I knew everyone, we call you Michèle, we don’t call you by your last name, I was fine.”

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