A childhood marked by love… Born on January 20, 1978 in Trappes, in Yvelines, Omar Sy is the fourth of eight children. Before meeting his mother, his father Demba married Selly, 14 years his junior. While she could not have children, he then married Diaratou. Raised by three parents, the 46 year old actor retains a lot of positives from his childhood. Saturday April 27, 2024, in an interview given to Parisianhe indeed indicated: “I take away a lot of love from it. I was lucky enough to have two mothers, I really had a mother ‘times two’. My connection to love, to women, comes from this recognition . They’re the ones who gave me this.”before specifying that if this diagram was not simple “in this country and in this culture”these two mothers loved them both. “I didn’t make a distinction: when I had a sore or was afraid, I went to see the first one I found and I received the same comfort“he confided with tenderness.
Omar Sy: “Two mothers who love us all as much as each other”
Proof that the star of the film Untouchable never made a difference between the two women, he called his first daughter… Selly! Thursday April 25, 2024, in the columns of New ObsOmar Sy had already spoken modestly about the family in which he grew up. “My mother arrived in France in 1974 (she was 16 years old) to marry this 40-year-old gentleman, to living at home with another woman 10 years older and becoming a mother at the age of 17“he confided, before specifying that the atmosphere was sometimes electric at home. “We grow up in this complicated atmosphere, between two women who are at war with each other, and at the same time between two mothers who love us all as much as each other and whom we love in the same way as each other”, he indicated. In full promotion of his book, Come let’s talk (ed. Albin Michel) Omar Sy spoke of his bond with his parents on the set of Dailyon TMC. “I’m with them, I spend time with them, we talk about what they understand, what they like. They accompanied me, they made me the man I am today“he slipped Thursday April 25, 2024.