Guest on the program A Sunday in the countryside, Thierry Beccaro returned to his painful past marked by childhood violence. He spoke with emotion about his father’s alcohol addiction.
Each week, Frédéric Lopez invites several personalities from all walks of life to Sunday in the countryside. The opportunity for Thierry Beccaro this Sunday, May 21 to take advantage of this break away from the Parisian tumult to confide in his career. During this very intimate interview, he returned to his difficult childhood marked by “weaknesses” and his father’s alcoholism. “The slightest pretext will make him want to smash me on the stairs in front of my little sister”confided the actor, very moved. “It was terrible because you don’t understand why. The only thing I was thinking was that I must have done something wrong.”
The former host of Motus explained why his father suffered from this addiction, linked in particular to the painful past of his father : “My grandmother fled fascist Italy. My father knew this period of ‘ritals’, ‘macaroni’, etc.”, he explained. And to continue:My mother was a very pretty woman and she had been Dauphine de Miss. So he was terribly jealous. My father, with all his frailties, jealousy of my mother, the work she did with men [elle était militaire, Ndlr]his desire to rise in society and then complexes perhaps in relation to the physical […] He will fall into alcohol, which will awaken all his demons.
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Shocking secrets
Thierry Beccaro lived a very complicated adolescence. “The tragedy is that when my father was in his normal state, he was a great guy. It was so fluctuating that I never knew when it was going to drop”revealed Thierry Beccaro in relation to “this expectation of blows”: “You don’t have adolescence”, he explained. For many years, the comedian tried to hide his suffering and “beforeoir makes sure it goes well” between his parents. In his book, I was born at 17, the host had already returned to his past as a beaten child.