If she is today a resolutely stronger woman, because she lives with her fragilities, Louane did not have a very easy childhood… Diagnosed at eight years old by a child psychiatrist of her attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADHD), the singer of “Day 1”confides in our colleagues at Marie Claire about the ordeal she experienced at that age.
“My poor mother…”
It was a time, she said, when she “hates school.” And for good reason, says the one who is now an orphan: “I think I don’t want to be separated from my parents“. At least, “That’s what I’m deducing at the moment with my psychologist” she also admits. At school, “The students weren’t nice because they thought I was weird.”
Louane now comments: “I understand it: in the early 2000s, we didn’t talk about mental health, even less that of children.” Besides, at home, Louane remembers, we didn’t really ask her how she was doing. She remembers : “I had an illness, so I went to see a doctor and took medication, period.”
And around his family, it’s not easier than in the playground, Louane believes. “The adults weren’t any nicer. A turbulent child was, for them, a badly behaved child. My poor mother… She endured so many comments from teachers, friends… Some of my parents’ friends didn’t couldn’t stand me. I felt it”says the woman who is now a mother herself.
“The strength that I seek in my motherhood since I no longer have my mother“
About her own motherhood, she shares: “I started writing a song for my fifth album which evokes precisely the strength that I seek in my motherhood since I no longer have my mother“. The latter died in 2014, a year after her father, and the broadcast of The Voice which revealed her to the general public. And Louane is full of praise for her. She assures that she was “stronger than society!”
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