If Line Papin has withdrawn over the past few months, she had a more than legitimate reason, if indeed she had to provide one. The 26-year-old writer was preparing for the release ofA possible life, his book expected on March 2 at Stock editions. Intimate and painful confidences necessary to put on paper for the wife of Marc Lavoine, victim of a miscarriage in 2020: “I had a miscarriage at two months pregnant in 2020 during the first confinement, when I was expecting twins” she confides in an interview with Current wife. This loss took a long time to heal, it still hasn’t.
Fallen pregnant again after losing her babies, Line Papin makes the decision to abort: “When one has desired a pregnancy which is interrupted, it would seem natural to carry out a second one. But when I got pregnant again a year later, I had the feeling that reality was no longer ready to accommodate my old desires, my dream of motherhood. The circumstances were no longer the same. There have been so many upheavals in me, so many wounds, that it was no longer the moment“.
For Line Papin, married to Marc Lavoine since 2020, writing was a necessity in this still complicated period for her: “I explain in the book that I started writing about abortion because I encountered a sense of guilt on the inside, a silence on the outside. One was added to the other to form a form of shame. […] Having a miscarriage or an abortion is considered a failure. While it is perhaps possible to look at things in another way. That’s what I wanted to do in this book anyway. Do not consider miscarriage and abortion as an end in themselves, but as the beginning of a questioning that goes towards life.“
Living through these terrible moments required a lot of courage from Line Papin. To be able to heal her wounds and move forward, the writer even distanced herself from the life she was beginning to build with Marc Lavoine. Not for lack of love towards him but for love for her: “The change has been great. I went from the character of the woman who is going to have a child to the figure of the single woman, artist. I experienced it as a space of necessary silence. You needed this place, this personal space of writing without everything else to be able to mourn“. A parenthesis that Marc Lavoine – currently on TF1 for the new season of The Voice – obviously left her to find her better.