Samy, a teenager with multiple disabilities and suffering from severe autistic traits, lost his life at the age of 17. On the set of LCP’s “Great Interviews”, in May 2022, his mother, the presenter Églantine Éméyé, had delivered on the difference of her boy.
An everyday battle. For 17 years, Églantine Éméyé raised her son Samy, polyhandicapped and suffering from severe autistic traits. A young man, whom the presenter affectionately nicknamed her “toothbrush thief”, which unfortunately join the stars in February 2023. During her lifetime, her mother never ceased to deplore the lack of structures sufficiently adapted to her disability, the absence of support… Invited to discuss the subject on the set of Great interviews by LCPin May 2022, she had thus returned to her fight, as well as to the announcement of disease of her child.
“I fell from above when I realized that my son was disabled. When we put the word, it was quite violent”, thus entrusted Églantine Éméyé to the microphone of Daphné Roulier. Nevertheless, the 49-year-old presenter lived long years of doubts before the medical profession verbalizes Samy’s condition. “It was very long, because doctors are used to telling you that a child who does not develop like the other, or like the little friend next door, develops at his own pace. In fact, we can clearly see the difference when we areent and we have quickly become aware of the abnormality. And obviously, we don’t want us to confirm this intuition“, she explained to our colleagues. And the one who is also the mother of a young man named Marco to add: “When the word falls on you, spontaneously, you say to yourself: ‘well, it’s violent, but there is undoubtedly a pre-established path.’ But, in fact, no, it’s a lot of loneliness…”
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Églantine Éméyé: “Samy’s life was not in vain”
Touched by mourningÉglantine Éméyé found thee courage to take up his pen to pay a new tribute to Samy on Instagram: “Tears still flow, but your words proved to me that Samy’s life was not in vain and he will live on in the hearts of all who knew him. And they allowed me to stand.” And to conclude, with determination: “The fight for disability and autism, with him and all of you, will continue.” As a reminder, Églantine Éméyé founded the associationA step towards life articulated around thecreation of educational spaces, with the aim of offering an education adapted to disabled children from 2 to 20 years old”.