It’s a pretty poignant sequence that took place during the show Seven to eight broadcast last Sunday on TF1. Come to talk about her career, but especially her family life, Muriel robin brought up a very heavy secret that she revealed in her autobiography, Brittle, published on October 18, 2018. A secret she might never have known if she hadn’t had the idea for this book. She goes to her mother’s best friend, Juliette, to collect her testimony in order to finalize the writing of her work. It was there that she heard the news: “She tells me my dad is not my dad and she tells me who my father is, and I can see very well who he is “.
When we are illegitimate, what some call bastard or bastard … we are wobbly
A real shock for Muriel Robin since the one she considered her biological father from birth, Antoine Robin, is not who she thinks. This biological father, Jacques Hamalian, is a man who works in the markets, just like his parents. “I liked this man very much by the way”, she recalls. The two men have since died and although this revelation upsets her, it does not fundamentally change things with the father who raised him, but some things take on another meaning. “My father remains my father (…), but when you are illegitimate, what some call bastard or bastard … you are wobbly “, she explains.
A difficult situation to live with, which she sums up in a few words: “Before arriving we are already a problem”. Muriel Robin does not know if the whole family is in the secret at the time of her birth. “She (editor’s note, her mother) told my father maybe, or not, it’s the only thing I wouldn’t know”, she indicates, before continuing on this biological father from Armenia: “The other one he knew, then I look like him, I have this (editor’s note, she shows her chin), it’s a dominant gene, which my father who raised me does not have. I was even told that I looked like him, when I arrived in the markets, we said to this Armenian Jacques ‘here is your daughter’ “, she tells Audrey Crespo-Mara.
A shocking testimony from Muriel Robin, visibly marked by this unexpected revelation and who rarely reveals himself on this family affair that has long remained secret.