why being abandoned at birth and growing up without your father “fixed” it

Make absence a strength. Behind his microphone, his famous broken voice and his acting talent, Patrick Bruel is indeed a man like the others. And he proved it this Saturday, November 12, by making touching and rare secrets about his private life in the columns of Point. Usually discreet on this subject, the 63-year-old artist has effectively lifted the veil on her relationship with her dadPierre Benguigui, revealing that he left when he was born. “My brother David once reminded me that my father was only 20 when I was born. Everything happened quickly. Maybe he found out this life wasn’t for him“he said.

The singer and father has therefore grew up without a father figure. If he had a bad experience of this absence during his childhood, Patrick Bruel nevertheless ended up coming to terms with it. Better still, he came to understand that maybe it was luck. “I could endorse the cliché of a child who grew up alone with his mother because my father left very early, with all that that can generate as an engine of life. But probably thatat one point, it must have worked out for me too“he admitted the member of the Enfoirés, before explaining that, thanks to the absence of his father, he had been able to live with his mother “a kind of free binomial”. “We hitchhiked to Italy when I was 8, backpacking in Spain, in Rome, seeing Tosca at the Caracalla thermal baths… we were good! My mother wandered between the great French chanson, rock and classical music. My eclecticism, I owe it to him“he added.

The reunion of Patrick Bruel with his father

vAs an adult, Patrick Bruel saw his father again. “It facilitated a discussion with him which was strong, very strong, verbally violent”, he assured. Difficult reunions, therefore, but also necessary for the interpreter of Who has the right. And for good reason, they allowed him to start afresh on solid foundations and renew a relationship with his father, who is also the grandfather of his two children, Oscar (born in 2003) and Léon (born in 2005), fruits of his relationship with screenwriter Amanda Sthers. “It freed up the space for my children, for him to be a grandfather and for something to settle between us over the years”concluded the singer.