Model, actress, presenter… If everything seems to succeed, Adriana Karembeu had a difficult childhood. Raised by her grandparents until she was six, she returned to live with her parents at the age of six, when her little sister, Natalia, was born. On the occasion of the release of his autobiography, Freeon May 2, at Leduc editions, the host gave an interview to TV Star. The opportunity for her to talk about her father’s violence, which she describes as “psychopath”. Assuring that writing about their relationship had been difficult, Adriana Karembeu indicated: “I felt the blows in my flesh again. I became aware of the absurdity of these gestures towards me. How can you do this to your child?“. With emotion, Michel Cymès’ sidekick then said: “I was my father’s scapegoat, a kind of bag you hit when you’re in a bad mood or when you just want to gratuitously torture a human being. For him, I was a monster”.
Adriana Karembeu could not count on the support of her mother
During this interview, the host assured that her father constantly told her that there were worse things than what she was experiencing. “Certainly, but what I experienced leaves its mark”, she estimated. Unfortunately, Adriana Karembeu was not able to count on the support of her mother, who worked a lot and did not witness her husband’s violent outbursts. “She was preparing for her specialization in medicine, she took care of us, she cooked, made our clothes. My mother later told me that she thought you had to be hard on children to raise them. I blame her, but I know she was so weak compared to my father.”, she slipped. Tuesday January 9, 2024, in the show Our true naturepresented by Frédéric Lopez, the one who became a mother at 46 had already lamented: “It kills when you’re a child, when you’re very little and there are just two people on Earth who are supposed to love you, and that’s not the case and what’s more, they tell you so. How do you fight? It is too hard”. With emotion, she added: “My father clearly told me, ‘I don’t love you.’ So what do I do? I’m seven years old. It’s complicated.”.