She never hesitates to talk cash. The singer and comedian Camille Lellouche, who will perform next January on the stage of the Salle Pleyel in Paris, was facing the journalist Nathalie Renoux on Saturday December 2 in her Unexpected Journal broadcast on RTL. And after a moving call with his brother Maxime, the artist was questioned by the radio host about her beginnings. A complicated period for Camille Lellouche, who did not deny her difficult past. Having never flinched when discussing the darkest facets of his pastlike the domestic violence she suffered at 19, the sacred comedian in LOL: Who laughs comes out has returned bluntly about his past as an alcoholic.
Referring to comments made at the beginning of the year, Nathalie Renoux contextualizes: “You were a little damaged, you were going out, you were drinking too”. To which Camille Lellouche agrees:“That’s how I damaged myself, because, well, going to bed late makes you tired, it gives you dark circles, but that’s not what damages you.” The journalist then asks her if she would say that she has “been an alcoholic”and the singer responds without blinking: “Well yes, it’s called alcoholism when you drink all the time, you just have to admit it.” The artist then questions the relationship with alcohol that the French have, because for her “in France, we have difficulty talking about this kind of thingbut from the moment when you work, you go out, you drink and you do that 7 days a week, you are an alcoholic.” She then calls for more honesty on the part of those who suffer “because obviously you can no longer go to bed without having had a drink”. “We must not be in denial”, she finishes.
Alcohol as a solution to depression
The 37-year-old artist with many hats then opened up about what led her to drink, and notably recounts her difficult beginnings before being returned to its rightful place thanks to the TF1 telehook. “I was not recognized as an artist”she says, referring to the ten years spent working in restaurants. “It’s hard to serve people you deeply admire with whom you want to sit, talk with them”, she confides.
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.
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