Communication with your children, in such a context, is necessarily delicate. All the more so for Alice Detollenaere, who is the mother-in-law of Jazz, the daughter that Camille Lacourt had, in 2012, with Valérie Bègue. “I really wanted to spare her, because she was little when it happened, she was 8 years oldshe recalls. I didn’t use the words, I didn’t really talk about it. And then it was over time, once it had passed, that I was better, that I was able to talk about it… I understood that she had perhaps been a little hurt that I away from the subject. I really regretted it and I really apologized to her. I told him that I was afraid of hurting him.”
To talk or to be quiet ? Alice Detollenaere advocates the first option. Depending on the age of the child, of course, taking great care and choosing words that are a bit watered down. “Children are so much tougher than you think, she assures. We don’t want to bear the sadness in their eyes, but it’s a bit of an escape in the end…“
Interview by Yohann Turi. Any reproduction prohibited without the mention of Purepeople.com.