After three weeks of absence, "A Sunday in the countryside" was again broadcast yesterday afternoon on France 2. For this issue, Frédéric Lopez received Chimène Badi, Michel Boujenah and François Alu.
The opportunity for this last guest to look back on his career as brilliant as it is tormented.
This son of a dance teacher joined the Paris Opera School in his tenth year.
At the time, this young
"hyper naive"
suffered violent harassment on his physique.
"I was told repeatedly that I had to refine myself, they often pointed to the shape of my buttocks or my thighs
," he recalled.
Same story on the side of his comrades who
“came to sting him too because they were in competition, with the pressure each year to be fired”
.
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Attacks that had caused eating disorders in the teenager
.
"Under my duvet, I was watching a movie with my packet of candies, my pizza, my cakes, a soda", listed the judge of "Dancing with the stars"
before miming himself swallowing everything and specifying that he
"destroyed" himself
.
To fight against his demons, François Alu used the metaphor of the
"bulletproof vest"
.
If the dancer has
"always had faith in dance"
despite
"tears, his loneliness, mockery and his troubles"
, he did not hide that this period had left its mark.
A return to "Dancing with the Stars"?
“It created eating disorders. Today I am better because I have been seeing a shrink for seven years but I still have surges of bulimia
, ”he detailed in front of the presenter and the other guests, including Chimène Badi, also a victim of these disorders.
François Alu, who had been named star of the Paris Opera Ballet in April 2022, decided to leave the dance institution seven months later to
“devote himself to his own projects”
.
This Monday, the dancer also told our colleagues from
Télé-Loisirs
,
"wait to find out if a new season of 'Dancing with the Stars' was planned and that he would discuss it when the time comes with the production".
