Bernard Campan will never forget the years of suffering of his wife Anne. She struggled with her addiction to alcohol. A struggle that he had already evoked with modesty in the film The Hidden Face. In the show En Aparté on Canal +, the actor confided in this painful fight.
Bernard Campan is very close with his wife, Anne. An important relationship for the career of the actor and humorist because the cellist supports him in all his projects. She is also her man’s biggest inspiration. In the film The dark side, which he wrote and directed in 2007, the sidekick of Didier Boudon and Pascal Légitimus had also depicted the difficulties encountered by his couple. A way for the artist to reveal himself like never before, but above all to evoke without disguise the alcoholism problems encountered by his wife. “Without compromise, Anne gave me her agreement to stage this painful episode of our lives.“, he had revealed in the columns of Paris Match, in 2009. For her part, Anne Campan had given carte blanche to her husband to put in images his fight against his addiction. “I was personally confronted with this disease. Faced with his project, I had complete confidence in Bernard. His benevolent gaze made him write a film as moving as it was successful“, she had explained.
Bernard Campan touched by the addiction of his wife
Fifteen years later, Bernard and Anne Campan are still closer than ever. The third member of the Unknowns does not forget, however, the years of struggle of his wife to get out of it. This Tuesday, January 25 on the set of the show As an aside, on Canal +, the 63-year-old actor returned to this painful episode of his life and has made rare confidences about alcoholism of the mother of his two daughters, Nina and Loan.
“When Anne came out of alcoholism, her addiction, she did it thanks to alcoholics anonymous. And for me, it was an opportunity to discover them. It’s really something that really impressed me. Finally, it is a form of spirituality“, he confided, as revealed by an extract unveiled by Gala. “When I wrote The dark side, it necessarily involved Anne, she was the first reader of the first version, he assured. Anyway, she’s the one who reads the first drafts of my scripts every time. There, I had to tell him : ‘Here, tell me if it really poses a problem for you because inevitably, it will talk about you and this problem'”. A real therapy for the couple.