For this new issue of
“A Sunday in the Country”
, Frédéric Lopez invited a group of heterogeneous guests to his house in the Paris region.
This February 18, it is the turn of the host Christophe Dechavanne, the writer Aurélie Valognes and the actor
Stéphane de Groodt
to have the joy of speaking about their childhood memories in the barn set up for the occasion .
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After the moving stories of his companions, the ex-racing driver also launched into the story of his life, mentioning a common point that he shared with Christophe Dechavanne.
“My father also attacked drinking a lot
,” he confided to Frédéric Lopez.
It was very early, at the age of 12, that he was forced to drive because his father was unable to return from a bar located 10 minutes from their home.
“We are gaining maturity, but I felt even more different from my friends.”
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Like many parents, the comedian's parents separated.
So, he spent the weekend with his father and the week with his mother.
“She remarried a brilliant doctor, a researcher who was one of the first to make me want to want to learn
,” he explained.
Stéphane de Groodt, then a young man, did not like school to the point of repeating a grade five times.
“My mother was desperate because she didn’t know how I was going to end up.
I got fired 14 times
,” he said.
But, his father-in-law didn't have the same concerns.
“He’s the first one who understands me”
“He understands that I have different desires from others and he believes it. He believes it because one day he said to me
“I can see that you’re not studying.
I think you're going to come out of this differently but... listen to this”,” Stéphane de Groodt recalled with emotion.
It was a vinyl by Jacques Brel.
“And I understand so much in that moment.
I understand that you actually have to get up, go somewhere.
You have to mess up, it doesn't matter, we'll get back up.
»
And this moment became a real pivotal moment for the actor because before that, he had
“the impression of being so far away that [he] hit the wall”
.
“I didn't feel comfortable with my friends, not comfortable with myself, nor in my aspirations.
I felt like no one believed me.
So when a person looks you in the eye and says
“I hear you, I understand you”
- the fact that it comes from him - I tell myself that maybe there is a light somewhere.
He's the first one who understands me.
»,
he shared with his comrades of the weekend.