Guest on the set of What an era!this Saturday, November 25, 2023, Stéphane Bern did not hesitate to talk about his intimate life. Indeed, when Léa Salamé asked him if it was easier for him to accept his homosexuality at 60, the man replied without a shadow of a doubt: “Ah, yes, totally. Especially when you’re lucky enough to live with a sublime guy. He has everything going for him. He’s deeply kind. He’s a good person”he declared, not failing to mention his other half Yori Bailleres.
A homosexuality that the history buff did not in fact approach in the same way when he was younger. And for good reason, the latter mentioned on set a terrible sentence that his mother had said to him several decades ago: “One day she told me ‘I’d rather be dead than gay’. I told him ‘well it’s going to be difficult’. It’s hard, that’s what I fought for.” revealed Stéphane Bern.
And to mention an artist also present on the set of the talk show: “That’s why I listened very attentively to what Eddy de Pretto was doing because I experienced things that you can’t imagine. You don’t know what we can experience within the family. and beyond… People do things to you… I remember, one day I was in a castle doing an interview and the guy took me all Roger Peyrefitte’s books, saying to me ‘that’s good for fags’“…
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“We always love our executioner”
Despite this terrible sentence pronounced by his mother, Stéphane Bern still made it known on set that he had forgiven her: “People talk nonsense about it. I forgave my parents for everything. They gave me a good education, I loved them. We always love our executioner. It’s difficult to talk to your parents, but my mother is a woman who suffered a lot. She was sick. I lost my mother at 53, she was very young. She told me ‘wouldn’t you be a little gay?’ She knew. Mothers know”, he concluded by specifying that he now wanted to fight for homosexuals who were even less fortunate.
️ “My mother preferred to see me dead rather than homosexual,” confides @bernstephane on the complex relationship he had with his parents and homophobia #QuelleEpoque@FranceTV@LeaSalamepic.twitter.com/344DSWTSiv
— What an era! (@QuelleEpoqueOff) November 25, 2023
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