This is the tragedy of his life… At 11, Elie Semoun lost his mother, Denise Malka, to hepatitis. If he has known very little about it, the comedian never misses an opportunity to pay tribute to him and think about her every day. Tuesday August 15, 2023, on the occasion of the 48th anniversary of his disappearance, Elie Semoun shared in story, on Instagram, a photo of his parents. “Family memory. On August 15, my mother disappeared when I was eleven years old. I don’t know if Insta is going to heaven, if so: hello…“, he wrote. A year earlier, on instagram, the former acolyte of Dieudonné had published a photo of his mother at the beach. With emotion, he had indicated in the caption: “A thought for Denise, my mother. August 15 has been a date to cross off my diary since I was 11 years old. They say that the dead die when they are forgotten, love stories too. So everything is fine .” Tuesday, December 9, 2020, in the columns of Télé 7 jours, the comedian had indicated: “When my mother died in 1974, I was unable to attend her funeral. It doesn’t happen in our culture.”
Elie Semoun: “I stayed in love with my mother”
Saturday, June 9, 2012, on the set ofWe are not in bedon France 2Jean-Paul Rouve said: “He lost his mom, we didn’t tell him. Her mom was buried, we didn’t tell her. And his father told him after while. Imagine what that can do for a ten-year-old child. And me, I speak with him and I was interested in all that because I was writing and I said to him quite simply: ‘But are you mad at your father for not having told you?’. And he said to me, ‘No, I blame my mother for being dead.'” Thursday, November 10, 2022, in It’s up to youon France 5Elie Semoun said: “It is true that it is not natural to lose your mother. I got out of it making people laugh, but I’m not the only artist… I don’t want to take out the violins, but I’m not the only artist who has big emotional gaps, and that’s why you become an artist.” Single, the comedian had also assured in the columns of Gala Thursday, January 30, 2020: “I understood something: my mother died at the age of 37, and I find it difficult to date women who are older than that because I feel like I’m cheating on her. . I think I stayed in love with my mother.”