In a relationship with Maxime Chattam for years, Faustine Bollaert continues to be surprised. On the airwaves of RTL, she explained why she found her writer husband sometimes “creepy”.
In love for years, Faustine Bollaert and Maxime Chattam share the same passions. “Both of us love horror movies, gothic or tell scary storiesconfided the presenter of Ca begins today. Besides, our wedding, organized in a ‘haunted mansion’ style, was atypical!” Even if the host of France 2 is also attracted by the gore to see the horrific, it still happens to her to be shocked by her husband. “From time to time I get a little decomposed and I still ask him the question: ‘But how can you write that?'”he joked on the airwaves of RTL this Saturday, November 12, while Maxime Chattam publishes a new very dark novel, The Constance of the Predator.
Over time, Faustine Bollaert has learned to separate her husband from the writer… Even if it’s not always easy. “I find it hard to imagine sometimes that it is the adorable, tender man, whom I know, who can write such horrors, added the host in the show We redid the TV. Above all, how he can come down from his office after writing this, and find us to come and eat nuggets with the children. And this is not the only habit of her husband that Faustine Bollaert does not understand. “The other time, we were watching Star Academy, and he was watching an autopsy report for an upcoming book.she confided. He’s creepy, yes. Still, it really is a man’s cream.”
Maxime Chattam: “Abbie and Peter, I love you”
And Maxime Chattam is particularly aware that his writings can surprise or even shock Faustine Bollaert. “Sometimes my wife reads a chapter that I just wrote, and she stares at me in silence for a few seconds. I know she wonders what is going on in my head to have such ideas”, first wrote Maxime Chattam in the acknowledgments of his latest book. If his wife is an avid reader, this is not the case of their children, Peter and Abbie. “They think I just write ‘scary books.’ added the writer. May they still give me hugs when I come down from the office, when I look a little out of place.”
“Dear readers, please don’t ruin everything by telling them the truth, thank you”, wrote Maxime Chattam, who therefore relies on the discretion of his readers so as not to spoil the childhood of his son and daughter. At the end of his latest book, the writer had a tender thought for the children he had with Faustine Bollaert: “Abbie and Peter, I love you. You give meaning to life. It’s a big responsibility. And rest assured, you don’t have to do anything to take it on. Just be you. The rest is up to you. the role of parents. Tender words that children will only be able to read in a few years. Still small indeed, their parents do not prefer to scare them with the gory stories invented by their famous dad.