A mother in common. In 2012, in the columns of Paris-Match, Gérard Lenorman made very harsh, but yet so moving, remarks towards his mother who would not have been present, and would even have been violent, towards him throughout his life. . “My mother, whom I never called mom, never accepted me […] For her, I was the cursed child, the child of shame”, he revealed before giving horrible details about his childhood: “I think I was a bit of her outlet. She beat me regularly, which ended up making me mute, deaf and autistic.”
A period of his life that he wanted to transcribe into song and for which he asked the help of his friend Serge Lama, author of his title “Mom”. Michel Drucker returned to this moment by revealing images dating from 2015, when Gérard Lenorman performed this title on the set of “Du Côté de chez Dave” in front of a Serge Lama filmed in close-up and totally collapsed. Invited on the France 2 program, “Vivement Dimanche”, the latter returned to the story of this moving piece by calling out to his friend. “I remember, you took me completely aside in a box at the Palais des Sports, you cornered me, you told me about your life”he remembered before adding: “Your difficult life, to say the least, with your mother. Obviously, it woke up things in me since I had a difficult past with mine too”.
An “experience” therefore shared by the interpreter of “I am sick”, which also explains his strong emotion when Gérard Lenorman sang it in front of him: “When you sang it in front of me, I felt an emotion that I haven’t felt in a long time. And I think that, wherever you sing it, people will feel that emotion and recheck if they is needed, the immense talent that you have”.
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