Alexandra Lamy met a woman who almost changed the course of her life. Still “traumatized”, the 54-year-old actress spoke on the show “Les Lueurs”…
At 54, Alexandra Lamy is at the height of her glory. And the actress has a series of projects. On display in Compostelaalready in theaters, she will soon find François Cluzet in a comedy by Reem Kherici, For pleasurein theaters on May 6.
Alexandra Lamy “gunned” by an ENT: “You can never…”
In full promotion of her hot news, Alexandra Lamy accepted the invitation from Jonathan Langlois. In his podcast The Glowsbroadcast on YouTube on April 5, the actress revealed in One guy, one girlimmersed herself in her most intimate memories. She even recounted an episode in her life that could have cost her her career!
The former companion of Jean Dujardin has the “slightly broken voice“since adolescence because of a”breathing in the vocal cords“. “I had a friend of my mother who was an ENT specialist, I had just returned to the Conservatory, and she said to me: ‘you should come see me at the office because I think you have a little problem with your voice’”she first said.
Before continuing: “I go to see her in the office, she examines me and she says to me: ‘I think you can say goodbye to the theater, you will never be able to hold on with the voice you have, with your vocal cords, you will not be able to play in the theater'”. “It blew me away!”remembered, moved, the mother of Chloé Jouannet, whom she had in 1997 with the actor Thomas Jouannet.
Alexandra Lamy “traumatized” : “It can be serious because…”
“I got out of there, I cried. It was horrible, it traumatized me (…) The girl is giving you your life, your passion and a desire”she continued. Alexandra Lamy, then barely 17 years old, did not give up. Rather than languishing, young Alexandra Lamy decided to redouble her efforts to convince herself that she could absolutely become an actress. And she did everything to make her career take off. “I said to myself ‘I’m not going to give up actually, and I’m going to work on my voice, and I’m going to make sure that it can hold up’. So I went to see an ENT, who was great, and a speech therapist (…) And it became an obsession with my voice”said Mélanie Doutey’s great friend.
However, she does not minimize the facts: “This woman, she could have shot me. So you shouldn’t listen to anyone, listen to yourself!”. And Alexandra Lamy concludes, determined: “It can be serious because if I didn’t have this passion, this pugnacity, maybe I would have stopped. And I might have had another life, maybe very good too, but on the other hand, it would have taken away a passion from me”.
