Ary Abittan, moved, finds little Naomi

So many emotions! Saturday September 4, in The secret song on TF1, actor Ary Abittan found little Naomi Joy, an almost 4-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome, with whom he shared the TV movie poster Learn to love you, by Stéphanie Pilloca, broadcast on M6 in September 2020. He played the father of Naomi, who, in the script, was shaken up by the birth of his daughter and struggled to tame his peculiarity. On the set of The secret song, at the end of the surprise, Ary Abittan went to find his relatives and friends. Naomi, who was then in her mom’s arms, waved her hello to her and immediately held out her arms. Moved, the 47-year-old actor could not help but go and take her in his arms. “These are children who deny all brutality and violence in this world. That’s all I had to say.”, he then declared to Nikos Aliagas, upset at the same time the viewers, who commented a lot on the sequence on social networks.

Ary Abittan met Naomi two years ago

In 2019, before the filming of the TV movie, Ary Abittan and Julie de Bona (who also had the right to a surprise on Saturday evening) went to meet Naomi and her parents at home, to get to know the little girl. “The meeting took place in a very simple and very natural way. Naomi was shy for a few moments but Ary Abittan managed to coax her”, had also confided Marjolaine, his mother, at the time on the site Casting.fr. As a result, the shoot was “very pleasant” and everything went well for Naomi; which has not been “neither in a hurry nor stressed”. She was still just a baby.

Naomi was part of Ary Abittan’s surprise in The secret song. He also got to see his friends, Medi Sadoun and Patrick Fiori, sing Love sickness for him. Director Claude Lellouch, also very close to Ary Abittan for years, was also present. Without forgetting the mother of the actor, very touched to see her son moved to this point by his reunion with Naomi.