Guest in Day-to-day this Friday, January 7, Frédéric Beigbeder made rare confidences about his life as a father. The writer admitted to having tried to discourage his daughter from embarking on a career as an actress.
If we know his romance with the famous actress Laura Smet, many women shared the life of Frédéric Beigbeder. Today, the latter is having happy days with Lara Micheli, whom he married in 2014. The lovebirds had the pleasure of welcoming a little Oona into their life in 2015, then Leonardo in 2017. But they are not the only children of the man of letters. From 1991 to 1996, the writer was married to Diane de Mac Mahon, a television woman. Together, they have a little girl, Chloë, who was born in 1999. And this father of three children has a special relationship with his eldest child. Usually very discreet about his private life, he confided in his relationship with his 22-year-old daughter. This Friday January 7 in Day-to-day, he did not hesitate to share his doubts as a father.
“Making movies? It’s going to be complicated”
In his work A dam against the Atlantic published on January 5, 2022, the author explains that he understood why his father had tried to discourage him from becoming a writer… Since he carried out the same business with his daughter, Chloë. “We are afraid when we have a child. We want to protect him. If he says to you one day: ‘I want to be an artist’, it’s very scary“, he explains. Wishing to get into the cinema, the young woman had to face the apprehension of her dad.”I thought my father was contemptuous, that he didn’t believe in me. But in reality, I said the same to my daughter. I told him : ‘Are you sure ? Doing cinema ? It’s going to be complicated, it’s hard ‘“, he relates.
“She starts well”
By tasting the joys of fatherhood, the director therefore better understood his father’s intentions when he was still a young boy. A redemption that he shares with readers in his new book. “I think he wanted to tell me that he loved me but that he was awkward or that I didn’t hear“, he confides on the set of Day-to-day. And if his father failed to distract him from writing, Frédéric Beigbeder did not convince her daughter to change lanes either … And it is obviously for the better! “She starts well, she has already made short films“, he explains. The Beigbeder are decidedly well inspired to go against the rules …