Valérie Bonneton is one of the star actresses of the series Do not do this, do not do that on France 2 alongside Bruno Salomone, Isabelle Gélinas and Guillaume de Tonquédec with whom she shared the nine seasons of the mini-series broadcast from 2007 to 2020.
But it is as a mother that the 52-year-old actress came to testify at the microphone ofRTL . This Saturday, September 10, Valérie Bonneton was the guest of the Unexpected log presented by Ophélie Meunier for the promotion of her first book mom to me (JC Lattès editions) which comes out this Wednesday, September 14. The actress also returned with emotion to the cancer of her 21-year-old son Joseph Cluzet (the result of her relationship with her ex-husband François Cluzet with whom she had a daughter Marguerite born in 2006) while he was n was only 4 years old. A traumatic memory that she wanted to share with the listeners ofRTL : “I also had job offers, but I turned them down because there was no way I wouldn’t spend all my time with him. she expressed. And for a long time, I wanted to tell it because I did everything to make it Life is Beautiful to the hospital.“
My boy wants to live
Despite this sad episode, her son, now an adult, came out of it defeated and grown up: “And today, my boy is 21 years old. He has no bad memories. He loves people, because there were always lots of people coming: nurses, doctors, etc. He loves doctors. It’s always very moving… And I wanted to tell it“, detailed Valérie Bonneton before adding: “Today, my boy, he has a taste for life but incredible. As soon as I have complicated, very hard things, he says to me: ‘Oh it’s funny’. But finally, he is fed up with everything. Nothing is a problem. It’s moving for me to talk about it.” This true story inspired Valérie Bonneton for her book where she tells the story of a little boy with leukemia who stays in hospital for five years.