2023-11-26 17:41:00
Stéphane Bern already has his tomb: “Everything is ready but there is no hurry…”
But everything hasn’t been easy for the host throughout his life: “That’s what I fought for. You can’t imagine everything we can experience, whether within the family or beyond. I remember one day, I was in a castle for an interview and the owner brought me all the Roger Peyrefitte books and said to me: ‘that’s good for queers.’ Like, I was trash.”
He also told a moving anecdote regarding his relationship with his parents and more particularly his mother from the moment he came out: “One day, she told me that she would rather see me dead than homosexual . I told him it was going to be difficult…”
”I was lucky to be part of the lower middle class and to be able to get away with it intellectually. So when I started my studies, I left home. Once, I came back to my parents and she made a comment to me. I said: ‘It’s okay, goodbye’ and I left,” continued Stéphane Bern who has since forgiven his parents.
”I have forgiven my parents for everything. They gave me a very good education, I loved them. We always love our executioner in a way. My mother was a woman who had suffered a lot, she was ill and died at 53,” revealed the host, “she often said to me: ‘But wouldn’t you be a little cheerful yourself?’ and I replied: ‘Why a little?’. Deep down, she knew.”
“At that time, corporal punishment still existed”: Stéphane Bern looks back on his difficult childhood
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