Moment of emotion in C to you, Wednesday November 22, 2023. On the occasion of the broadcast on France 2 of the film based on his autobiographical story I was born at 17 (published by Plon in 2018), Thierry Beccaro visited Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine’s set. The actor appeared very moved. “I am very troubled. I wanted to say thank you to all of you because you are the faithful among the faithful. Babeth, Pierre, you were there when I announced my departure from France Télévisions, when I presented the book, and there this evening”. After addressing the violence suffered in his childhood at the hands of his father, the former game host wished emphasize its reconstruction and the power that sharing its history had given it. This book and this film are not there “to heal [son] ego” but to help others. “What I want now is for people to say to themselves ‘if he did pretty well, we should be able to get away with it’“did he declare.
Thierry Beccaro accompanied his father until his death
More than his personal story, it is a message of peace and forgiveness that Thierry Beccaro sought to share. “I have met people, at book fairs, leaving theaters, who say thank you. And then who sometimes say ‘thank you for what you do, but I don’t forgive’“. A statement on which the presenter decided to respond: “And you ?”. “I say to these people: don’t don’t stay there. Don’t stay on the sourness, the bitterness“, the actor then replied with sincerity, before explaining his own story. “I went as far as forgiveness. I accompanied my father until the end, because despite everything he was also a wonderful man. That’s what I say in the film.”. In the TV film, Thierry Beccaro plays his own role, that of a man in adulthood and in full reconstruction. As he confided to TV 7 daysthis shoot was both a real challenge and a way to get to the end of his story with his father. “In this film, there is a sequence with him in the hospital. I would have liked to tell him what is said in this scene…”, he confided with a trembling voice before adding: “I accompanied him until the end, but I wish he would just ask me for forgiveness. We would have come a long way“.