“You become your father’s parent”… Olivia Leray recounts her childhood with an alcohol-dependent father

“I had situations to manage that a teenager should not have to manage,” recalls Olivia Leray in a video interview given to 20 Minutes. In his book Water in your wine, which has just been published by Fayard, she recounts her life with an alcohol-dependent father.

Desperately waiting for him to pick her up for the weekend, controlling his alcohol consumption, watching that he takes his medication, or even carrying him at arm’s length following an evening when he drank too much. .. So many situations that the teenager she was had to manage. “These are things that make you grow faster. “With this book, the anger of the young Olivia gave way to a tenderness for this father” with a somewhat dented life course “. “I wanted to give him the place he deserves in society. »

The video interview with Olivia Leray can be found at the top of this article.