She owes her career to her talent, but also to an immeasurable determination in the face of hardship.
Invited this Sunday, January 1 by Frédéric Lopez in the program
A Sunday in the countryside
, Camille Lellouche returned to a difficult moment in her early career that she went through with aplomb.
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Faced with the host and his two other guests, the swimmer Camille Lacour and the composer Yvan Cassar, the comedian recounted the hardships experienced during the first years of his profession, before his appearance in 2015 on the show
The Voice
which propelled to the front of the stage.
We are in 2013, and the actress and singer is trying to break through, eager to be recognized by the profession.
Spotted by director Rebecca Zlotowski to play in the feature film
Grand Central
, she climbed the steps of the Cannes Film Festival that year.
But the young artist is nonetheless an actress in the making, still forced to work in a piano bar and serve customers.
Alcohol becomes for her a refuge to fill her ill-being.
"I'm exhausted because I work a lot in catering and besides that, I go out way too much.
I sing in piano bars, but above all, I drink way too much because I'm unhappy.
I say it very clearly, I have no problem with that, ”confides the 36-year-old young woman frankly.
The vicious circle does not stop there: “Suddenly, I can no longer go to work, so I can't pay my rent, so I go into debt and, one day, my mother felt it.
She rang at six in the morning, she saw the apartment and she said: 'You are going to return the apartment and you are going to come back home'”.
On video, Camille Lellouche, Maria Bravo and Eva Longoria at the Global Gift Gala
The interpreter of
But I love you
could not hold back her tears while watching the video sent by her brother Maxime Lellouche on the occasion of the show: “Hello my sister, little surprise from your brother.
To tell you that I was very proud of you, of everything you achieved, I love you very much, I send you big kisses, I love you.
Kisses”, can we see him say to her.
“It is I who am proud of him above all, he is a chef, I am very proud of him”, reacted in return the singer.
“Especially my brother, he has seen a lot.
I saw all the people who left me, but those who were there were my mother, my brother…” she finally concluded, very moved.