It’s time for confidences.
After writing his autobiography entitled
Sans transition
and responding without taboo to our interview,
Christophe Dechavanne
is this Sunday, February 18 in a new issue of Frédéric Lopez's show, “A Sunday in the Country”.
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The program, broadcast on France 2, is known for its atmosphere conducive to confessions.
And once again, there was no shortage of it.
The television host obviously spoke about his childhood - marked by his father's alcoholism, his mother's harshness and the mockery made by his classmates about his small size - his rise to the rank of essential TV personality, or his career is still up and down.
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“I was very often very sad. Professionally things are going well, after being happy it’s something else
,” he declared.
And, without really understanding what is hidden behind this sentence, the presenter of “Rendezvous in unknown lands” questioned him about his role as a father.
From then on, he truly lets go and, overwhelmed by emotion, Christophe Dechavanne asks for a few seconds to compose himself, during which the journalist provides a first element of response:
“You did your best, like each of us”
.
“It was completely unexpected”
Statement immediately corrected by Dechavanne.
“No, I was a good father I think.
I made do with what was given to me as I separated myself from the mothers each time.
Indeed, Christophe Dechavanne became for the first time at the age of 29, the father of Pauline born from his union with the producer Marie Geneste.
Three years later, his son Paul-Henri was born, the fruit of his relationship with Isabelle.
Finally, in 1998, Ninon was born, his youngest daughter whom he had with actress Manon Saidani.
“I have three different moms but I probably screwed up, yes. I neglected the big one a little because I took care of the little one a lot. And for my son, it's more complicated. That’s what disturbed me the most,”
he began as if to justify his emotion.
“It's very difficult not to talk about it because I can't say I don't have three children, I have three.
Whom I love as much but there is one I was forced to mourn, he is not dead.
He is alive but he is no longer there, neither for me nor for his sisters, which is very difficult to live with and which was completely unexpected.
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“I was like that
,” explains the TV man, miming a warm handshake to image his relationship with his son.
“But since 2013, I saw him for 5 minutes in 2015 at my daughter’s wedding and otherwise I never saw him again.”
Concerned by the idea of growing old, and by extension that of dying, Dechavanne adds:
“If he wants to come back, he'll have to work his ass off a little because it's going to be late afterwards.
But he has all my hatred and all my love.
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