At the head of many television successes including Loft Story, Koh Lantaor the Star Academy,Alexia Laroche-Joubert can be proud of her career. Especially since nothing guaranteed her such success, in particular because of her handicap which caused her many harms when she was still at school. Guest in the podcast Pauseby Alexandre Mars, this Wednesday, February 9, the producer agreed to come back to this complicated period of her life and to open up.
“I was multi-dys. I had lots of d: dyslexic, dysorthographic… You have to go back to the time, already, we didn’t diagnose that early. Me, I was diagnosed very late”she revealed at first before adding: “so in the end, I ran into total misunderstanding, both from my parents, because my mother was very bright. She had to pass the ENA, but in the end, she got me. And it was more than a difficulty, it was one of the dramas of my life”. Even more amazing, how late she learned to read and write: “I learned to read and write at 11. When I entered sixth grade, I only knew how to write my last name. And thanks to mum, who had a lot of humor, I knew how to write spelling”.
Despite the fact that she finally managed to read and write and even get her baccalaureate at the cost of many efforts, Alexia Laroche-Joubert is nonetheless traumatized by this period as she said: “I remember one day, I find myself in a child therapist with my daughter, following the death of her father, and the woman asks me a stupid question, saying to me: ‘How did school go for you? ‘. And I break down in tears. A torrent of tears, because it was a trauma”.
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