Invited on the set of C à vous, Florence Foresti confided in her anxiety attacks. The actress reveals how the scene literally saved her.
Florence Foresti has a busy news. Indeed, the comedian is on the poster of the series Orders, broadcast on Canal+. She also plays a show, titled Boys, boys, boys. On the occasion of this double promotion, the actress was on the set of It’s up to youon Friday, September 23, 2022. The opportunity for Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine to question her on a very specific subject : “You suffer from panic attacks…”. What Florence Foresti retorts: “Yes since childhood… I’ve never hidden it. But it’s true that I wanted to use the series to talk about it, because first of all, there’s a comic aspect finally, in real life no but in fiction yes (…) And then it served the character of Florence who lives less well her periods of anxiety “.
The presenter of It’s up to you goes a little further: “These periods of anxiety, they never happen when you’re on stage, they happen between two tours, two shows. That’s when you’re most vulnerable,” launches Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. “In real life yes. On stage, you feel very alive, especially when people are laughing! There is something very bright, very alive in laughter. So on stage, it’s the place where I’m the best”, explains the comedian.
So, from this health problem, the actress wanted to make it a strength for the Canal+ series. “I wanted to deal with anxiety disorder, anxiety disorders that I never hid from, I’ve been doing them since I was very little. I suffer from this illness (…) I wanted to talk about it because it is an illness from which many people suffer and then they often do not dare to treat themselves. You have to treat yourself otherwise you isolate yourself and you end up locked up at home. The funniest way I found to do it was to have it played by an actor. My discomfort, it is embodied by an actor. Florence Foresti had returned to this evil which gnaws at her and had tried to give some details on the origins of her anxiety attacks.
“The scene saved me”
For magazine Psychologiesshe confided:Initially, my goal was to overcome my panic attacks, I was not making a scene yet. I was working in an office as a graphic designer and I started having panic attacks that literally made it impossible for me to live. I was 20 years old. When I say that the scene saved me, it’s a bit romantic but not wrong”, she confided, explaining that the scene had served as an outlet for her: “I understood that playing a character was the only way to evacuate the anguish of death, the anxiety”, she had analysed.
“I use my experience to move on to more universal subjects”
With this series, Florence Foresti makes known all her ills : “Yes, there are similarities. The apartment in the series is the one I lived in. The housekeeper is really mine. And the dog is… the nephew of mine They have the same face. I use my experience to go towards more universal subjects. That’s what I’ve always done. I located the series in 2017 because, after Madame (2016), I I was a little depressed, like after every show: we wonder what we’re going to do, if we still have things to say… It was my next show, Epilogue, that saved me”.
Florence Foresti: “I want to protect my daughter”
For Tele-LeisureFlorence Foresti also confided in her life as a mother: “First, when my daughter is with her father, my character finds herself in absolute solitude, which gives interesting situations to tell. The life of a mother with a child is even funnier than that of a childless mother. But these are the limits of my privacy, and I also want to protect my daughter. I’m willing to expose myself, but not her. I am not Celine Dion! Do I want him to experience this? Is she okay with me showing what a mother-daughter relationship is? I’ll see when she’s older. With Désordres, I didn’t want to betray her. But I took notes. She is 15 years old and there is quoi do when living with a teenage girl. But I will ask his opinion, I will not do anything without his approval”.