It was time for emotion.
This Sunday, March 17,
Jeanfi Janssens
was the guest of “A Sunday in the Country” alongside singer Pierre de Maere and actress Zabou Breitman.
Frédéric Lopez looked back on the comedian's beginnings, his first job as a steward, his sexuality but also on a difficult period in his life: the death of his brother.
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The 50-year-old man was then a steward and was working at the time of the tragedy.
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When they told me, it’s funny, I was getting off a plane.
I arrived at the hotel reception in Nice,”
he explained to Frédéric Lopez and the guests.
And continues: “
The receptionist tells me that my brother is dead and that I should call home.
I called my mother, I understood from her screams what was happening.
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“Their relationship almost exploded”
Only the comedian's first reaction was not particularly surprising.
From then on, it was not the feeling of sadness that predominated but anger.
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I went down and slapped the receptionist.
[...]
I did not want to print that my brother was dead,”
he confided in the show.
He then elaborated on the way his loved ones reacted.
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It’s terrible for the parents, for us, but for the parents it’s worse.
This is not in the order of things.
We got no explanation, no letter… only interpretations.
The first thing parents do is blame themselves for not having seen it and tell themselves that they had missed something.
My brother had two young children.
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Jeanfi Janssens also confided that this ordeal had considerably marked his parents.
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Their relationship almost exploded, but they held on for the children and grandchildren.
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