Becoming a father is never easy. And it is probably not Jamel Debbouze who will say the opposite. The companion of Mélissa Theuriau also returned to the moment when he learned the news, from the mouth of his half, facing Léa Salamé on France Inter. “When I learned that I was going to be a father, I almost took off. We are always afraid. Absolutely. We find ourselves faced with an immense responsibility and then we fantasize about it, it overwhelms us”, he confessed. But if fear invaded the spirit of the comedian it was not only for the new role that he was going to take on.
No doubt he was already aware that he was going to have many difficulties caring for his children, especially when they were still babies. Guest on the show Hot Ones by Kyan Khojandi, he was coming back to this complicated period of his life, with a lot of humor. Especially when he thinks back to when he had to change diapers, when he is handicapped in one arm.
“With teeth”
“It’s very complicated to change diapers for me, because you have to remember, Kyan, I can’t move my arm”he reminds his interlocutor before describing the diaper change scene: “So I was trying to hold the little one against the wall, so that he wouldn’t move too much. But it had been three months, I didn’t have to compress his head too much. Once he didn’t move anymore, I raise your feet and there you have to remove the diaper”.
But it is the rest of his story that becomes really hilarious and which made Jamel Debbouze die of laughter, when he remembered the scene, and Kyan Khojandi. “And so I have to remove the diaper with my teeth, I have no choice!”he admits in all honesty before concluding: “I ended the diaper like that and I didn’t see that I had sh*t on my nose. I never realized it. I realized it late. And me, I was proud”.