In an interview granted to the magazine Version Femina, Romane Bohringer confided in her personal life. The actress notably agreed to talk about her mother, who abandoned her when she was only 9 months old.
On February 22, Romane Bohringer will star in the film Small, directed by Julie Lerat-Gersant. In this feature film, the 49-year-old actress plays an educator who welcomes a pregnant teenager into her center. But in taking on the role, she revealed that terrible memories from the past had come to the surface. Indeed, the actress is the daughter of Richard Bohringer and Marguerite Bourry. The latter gave birth to her child when she was 21 years old. A few months later, she divorced and left behind her baby, who was only 9 months old.
“Beyond my character I was very moved by the story of this teenager who is expecting a child she does not want“, said Romane Bohringer in an interview with the magazine Version Femina this Monday, February 6. And to add:when I read Julie’s script, I was overwhelmed. There was such a twinning with what I’ve been through, with the themes that torment me and irrigate my life: motherhood, transmission, the fragility of the mother-daughter bond, the construction of the adult who had a dented childhood. My second film, which I am writing, will also talk about this severed tie, what we do with it, what we keep with it.
Romane Bohringer proud of her own motherhood
Of these painful memories, Romane Bohringer said she had preserved “a great emptiness and a great strength”particularly in its relationship to its “own motherhood“.”I had an adoptive mother who means a lot, but the initial abandonment has accentuated the questions that many women have about their legitimacy as a mother“, continued the one who gave birth to two children, Rose (2008) and Raoul (2011), from her union with Philippe Rebbot. And to conclude:every day spent with my children makes me tell myself that I did not come out so badly. And ultimately knowing that I didn’t repeat the pattern, that I ‘succeeded’ where my mother failed, made me stronger.”.