Since this Tuesday, October 12, 2023, Camille Lacourt is starring in a documentary broadcast on Prime Video and entitled Strong, as strong as fragile. On this occasion, the world swimming champion spoke in the columns of our colleagues from La Provence where he spoke without filter of the relationship with his partner Alice Detollenaere.
This Tuesday, October 12, 2023 marks the release on Prime Video of the documentary Strong, too
strong than fragile in which several high-level athletes speak about the subject of mental health in sport. A report in which the skier Perrine Lafont as well as the former world swimming champion Camille Lacourt take part.
On this occasion, the companion of Alice Detollenaere confided in the columns of our colleagues from Provence. “I saw that we all felt illegitimate, weak, a little stupid, to say that we had had burnout. But the fact that I spoke out showed that this can happen even to successful people”, explains the ex-husband of Valérie Bègue to our colleagues. And to add: “I’m working on it, it takes time. It doesn’t hurt me to talk about it and if it can do people good, then I agree to take on this role. Discussing it, I think it’s the first key to getting through it.”
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Camille Lacourt: “It’s quite destabilizing”
This is not the first time that the athlete has taken the initiative to raise this subject which has long been taboo in the world of high-level sport. After going through depression, Camille Lacourt spoke at length on the subject through her autobiography, Fifty shades of bluepublished in 2019 by Lafon editions. Unsurprisingly, the man who retired from sports in 2017 also mentioned the essential role played by his partner in getting back on track after the burn-out he went through..
From their first meeting, Alice Detollenaere was able to see through the former champion’s shell. “As soon as I meet her, she fascinates me as much as she scares me. I see that she sees me, it’s quite destabilizing because I was trying to hide as much as possible”he explains to Provence before adding: “She saw, when I was with my daughter, that I was really me, that reinforced her feelings.” Unwavering support which had a major impact on the athlete’s mental health.
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“She was really important for me during this period. But because it was already in progress (of upslope). If I wasn’t already changing, it wouldn’t have lasted very long (between them).”, he concluded with our colleagues. Camille Lacourt and Alice Detollenaere are now experiencing perfect love, after welcoming a little boy named Marcius.
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