It was time for confidences for Patrice Laffont! This Tuesday, January 11, 2022, the “Parents first” podcast honored the famous presenter. The opportunity for him to deliver unvarnished parenting. In the city, he is the happy father of three children: Axelle and Fabrice born from a previous union and Mathilde the fruit of his love affair with his wife Valérie. Robert Laffont’s son saw his youngest growing up… Unlike his elders. “The situation was quite different between what I was for Fabrice and Axelle and for Mathilde, who have a big age difference. Let’s say that I was at the very start of my TV career and that I was only thinking, I admit, of that ”, regretted Patrice Laffont. “I was very busy, I left in the morning relatively early and returned late at night. I didn’t help them much, I didn’t really educate them. But, on the other hand, I was a happy, loving and entertaining daddy […]. ”
A situation that he analyzes today with a lot of philosophy. “We are talking about this again with my children now that they are grown up. Not long ago, Axelle said to me: ‘You remember, you never helped me with my homework’. It’s true, I was not at all interested in their studies and I was not strict at all. I don’t think I was a terrible dad back then “, underlined the host who affirms that everything was different with his younger sister. “My career was made and I wanted to be on TV a lot less. I devoted myself much more to Mathilde. As I have a certain imagination, she was entitled to a different story every night, I invented a character for her, I sang her songs. There was a kind of playful bond that I had a little less with my other children […]. “
To close his story, Patrice Laffont sent a poignant message to Axelle and Fabrice. “I would like them to keep the image of a man who did not hurt anyone and especially not them. I ask their forgiveness if I was not a father as present and attentive as I was. could have been […]”, he confessed and clarified not without emotion: “I think we have a lot in common. We play a lot, I was a game presenter and, in life, we play lots of games, it brings us together. I would like them to continue playing without me… “
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