Guy Bedos was a man full of tenderness. For his friends, his former companions, his wife, Joëlle Bercot, his children. And even for his mother, Hildeberte Verdier, with whom he nevertheless had a complicated relationship. Victim of domestic violence by her husband, Guy Bedos' stepfather, Hildeberte Verdier has long passed on the violence she suffered on her son, whom she struck with some "heavy objects". But that's not all. On the show set Signed Mireille Dumas, sure France 3, the star ofAn elephant cheats a lot made rare confidences about this woman who was also "racist, anti-Semitic ". "She said before me: 'Jews and Arabs who kill each other, it will always do that less …'", he had confided. "She said nonsense (…) She taught me tolerance in a certain way because I adored this woman who was everything that I hate as a human being", he added.
A mother in total opposition to her convictions
It is perhaps in response to this that the humorist subsequently forged this political consciousness that we know. A great defender of diversity, he advocated tolerance in his sketches above all, not hesitating to step up to the plate to fight racism as soon as a platform was offered to him. While Guy Bedos celebrated the victory of Mitterrand, with whom he revealed on France Culture to have had a "beautiful story", his mother also let his convictions speak … "In 1981, she was still walking around with a photo of Marshal Pétain … ", he was telling Mireille Dumas. And to add: "I built myself absolutely against what I suffered". Yet his mother loved him. "(…) she was not very friendly but I loved her ", he had slipped, without make-up.
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