11 years ago, on August 9, 2011, François-Xavier, candidate for season 3 of Secret Storybetter known by the nickname of FX, died, hit by a car. According to the account of a witness, it has since been established that it is a suicide. A drama that marked the minds of everyone, fans of the reality TV show who then knew its greatest hours of glory, but of course especially those close to it. Among them, the most affected, his mother, Marielle Leuridan. She had spoken, delivering moving words after the tragic disappearance of her son.
A year after the death of François-Xavier, his mother gave herself up for the first time in the columns of Closer. She pointed in particular to the terrible consequences of her participation in the TF1 reality TV show. “I had advised him not to participate because he was sensitive and fragile […] At its output he had become a different personshe said. He had lost a lot of weight, he was unstable, confused in his head, as if he were living on another planet. He slept all day and lived at night. He no longer had any ambition.” According to her, Secret Story would have had a bad impact on his son.
He took it as a betrayal
But not only, because still according to the point of view of Marielle, the premature stop of Carré Viiip, another program in which FX had participated, was badly experienced by the latter. “He took it as a betrayal and he was depressed for a month. He was under treatment, he no longer had a taste for anything and no longer had any notion of reality. Something had snapped inside him“, she declared. Following this tragedy, the mother of François-Xavier had opened a hairdressing salon in Saint-Nazaire, in his honor. “It’s a project that we had in common with François-Xaviershe confided. When he died, after taking the shock, I decided to go all the way with our company to pay tribute to him. It took me nine months, like a child...“
The chilling testimony of the night of his death
It was on the night of August 8 to 9, 2011, at the intersection of departmental roads 49 and 17, around 12:50 a.m., that FX been hit by a car. A witness to the drama, had related the event to our colleagues from Closer. “We saw in the distance a white car coming, full headlights. And then, again, the silhouette of FX appeared on the side of the road opposite the car which arrived. He was rambling. We tried to warn the vehicle to slow it down, but to no avail. FX pounced on it. After a glide, he landed in the ditch“, he notified. A chilling story.