Guy Carlier has lost 150 kilos. A long fight against the disease, which the comedian won after having fought for ten long years, as he confides in the Parisian this Saturday, January 8.
Unrecognizable. This is how we could describe Guy Carlier, who has long fought against bulimia. A fight of a lifetime that took him away from his youngest son, Raphael. The one known on YouTube as Carlito evoked in 2020 in his book Dad 2.0 his relationship with his father. “My parents separated when I was two years old, my father was morbidly obese, my mother had to deal with two kids and her problems on her own”Wrote Mcfly’s sidekick in his book. Statements that upset Guy Carlier.
In the columns of Parisian this Saturday, January 8, the radio and television columnist spoke of his relationship with his son. And his regrets. “When it’s like that, you no longer have a family life, your wife catches you stealing filthy stuff from the fridge at night. I inflicted this on Raphy, I know he’s mad at me”, Admitted the 72-year-old comedian. However, the father and the son did not live only dark times. “I took him to football, to drums lessons, it was I who introduced him to music. We did Route 66 in the United States … And all that he never talks about”, Lamented Guy Carlier.
Carl vs Guitou
Metamorphosed after having fought for years against bulimia, Guy Carlier told the media to have lost “more than 150 kilos”. “I am at 96 kg, while I was at 251”, He said. A result obtained after ten years of combat, and thanks to surgery and the help of the nutritionist doctor Jean-Michel Cohen. “Talking about it openly on stage is to put people at ease. We all got our problems, all our dark sides (Editor’s note: his, he calls him Carl in the show, in opposition to the nice Guitou). We hide them, we are ashamed of them. For years I destroyed myself, telling myself that I was not a good guy”, Says Guy Carlier. So in his show Carl and Guitou, he is very happy to say “we’re all the same”. “The main thing is to fire his Carls. Me, I consider that the 150 kg that I lost, it is the part of Carl that I dropped. I haven’t become perfect. But, when you have little left, you can’t waste time despising yourself”, Says Guy Carlier. A strong message.