Julien Lepers is a fulfilled dad. In 1993 and 1998, he welcomed his two children Lorraine and Guillaume. But if we are to believe a young man named Alexandre Lefeuvrethe former presenter of Questions for a champion (France 3) will have a third child and would never have assumed to be his dad. AT France Sundaythe young 34-year-old songwriter who grew up in Amiens gave an interview.
Julien Lepers would have had a relationship that lasted two yearsin the mid-1980s, With his mother Speedwell. He took her to his bachelor pad to see her. “Young and a bit naive“, it was not until much later that she learned that he was already in a relationship. A blow for this mother who would have fallen pregnant with Alexandre during this idyll. She would have waited until her son was 6 years old to explain to him that the 72-year-old host was his dad. “At school, it was not easy, the other children, who only saw my mother, called me a ‘bastard’ and laughed at me asking me: ‘Where is your father?’ But until I was 13, I didn’t feel the need to go any further“, confided Alexander to France Sunday.
Once a teenager, the charming young man indeed wanted to know where he came from and who he was. After learning the identity of his supposed dad, he wrote him a letter to tell his story. Then, at the end of the mail, he gave his address in the hope that Julien Lepers would like to meet him. A dream that would have come true on a Sunday, while he was watching a movie with his mom. “Someone knocks on the door and I see Julien Lepers with a helmet, holding the hand of his son Guillaume and that of his partner at the time. We brought them into the house. The current went well and he left promising to see me again“, continued Alexander.
The word that would have changed everything
Some months later, Julien Lepers would have invited him on vacation in his house in Normandy, at the beginning of the summer, in introducing him as a friend. It was there that he would have met Lorraine for the first time. “We look so alike that I’m uncomfortable“, he clarified. Everything would have been fine until Alexandre accidentally calls the presenter “dad” at the end of a day. “As soon as he braces himself, tells me that we are sure of nothing… The next morning, he wakes me at dawn, warns me that his parents are coming and that I must quickly pack my bags“, he continued. This is how his stay would have ended and “since then, no sound, no picture“. The former star of France Télévisions would have changed his phone number and would not have contacted him again.
In 2006through his lawyer, Alexandre would have requested a paternity test. Three would have been made with each time, different results (99%, 65% then 50%). Figures that surprised the young man and his mother. “Normally, the two people being tested should be in the same room. But that was never the case“, he said. Today, the songwriter therefore counts well continue to fight so that a paternity test, under the control of a judicial officer, be done. If according to Alexandre, the case is probably over for the one he considers his dad, this is not the case for him. “Not at all. When did he care about how I felt“, he concluded when asked if he apprehended the reaction of Julien Lepers. A reaction that will certainly be eagerly awaited.
The interview can be found in the February 18, 2022 issue of France Sunday.