Facing Cyril Hanouna in Do not touch My TVTuesday, September 13, comedian Jean-Marie Bigard spoke of a tragic moment in his life: the death of his father, who was brutally killed.
“I remember that I forgave my father’s killer and I can’t tell you where it came from“, he said at the start. The husband of Lola Marois – with whom he had two children, Jules and Bella (10 years old) – then recounted in detail how his father was murdered. “The guy arrived at night. My father had nothing to defend himself with, he had a hunting knife like this [il montre la taille d’un grand couteau avec ses mains, NDLR]. He cracked my father’s body with a dozen very deep stab wounds. When I saw my father’s bloody hands coming down the stairs and reaching the door to try to get out, there he [l’assassin, NDLR] arrives with a rifle. He puts his foot on his back and he shoots him in the back of the neck to finish him off. Well, how can I explain to you that I forgave this guy with all my heart?“, he said leaving certainly more than one viewer speechless.
In the show Temporary madness in 2016, he returned to the motive for this terrible killing. “My father was murdered by a guy. He had a wife, he asked us if it bothered us if he started a new life, we said ‘of course not’. It’s a news item, but this woman had a guy, one day he came, he hid in the house and he killed my father with a dozen stab wounds and he finished him off with a rifle shot in the neck. It’s quite trying. It’s not at all the same as seeing it on TV, it’s not the same to see the course, the hands, the blood on the walls“, he had declared.
As he said tonight in Do not touch My TV, his father’s killer surrendered to the police. On this subject, he had already confided in more detail, always in Temporary madness. “The guy gave himself up to the police and I don’t know where I found that, but, in the dock, I forgave him. I don’t know where it came from. I am sure and certain at the time that since he is repentant, it is better to forgive him. He couldn’t give me my father back. There were two solutions, hatred, anger, hatred until the end of my days, or to forgive (…) I took that away from me, because it would have been terrible to drag that thing around like a cannonball.“A terrible story, a great example of forgiveness.