As a reminder, Angia has autism. An anomaly to which the 56-year-old actor had to adapt. On January 31, when he was a guest on the podcast parents first who questions famous parents about their parenthood, he decided to approach the subject in all transparency, speaking at first about the custody of his child which was granted to him.
“I was in a panic”
“The judge decided that I would have full custody. I didn’t decide anything, I didn’t ask for anything. I walked out of the judge’s office dazed because I was in a panic. I said to myself: ‘But what am I going to do? JI am not at all equipped for that’“, he confided, when his daughter was then 5 years old.
“She typed my name on the internet and saw that I referred to her as my autistic child. She was extremely hurt and didn’t want to come to terms with being autistic. I try to make her understand that it’s a strength“, he continued, before indicating that she is registered in a traditional school with an AVS (School Life Assistance). Which makes him very proud since he co-created Autism info service, a platform dedicated to mutual aid for parents of autistic children. “Today, our ambition is to create a directory to bring together all the parents’ associations that have made progress on the issue of autism in France.“, he detailed.
Note that he is also the father of Jules (born in 1995 from his former union with actress Patricia Francino) and Emma-Rose (born