Dany Boon confided in precariousness that punctuated his childhood, in the program “One Sunday in the countryside”. The 58 -year -old actor was “worse than poor” in his words …
Dany Boon has never had any trouble mentioning in the media his precarious childhood. In 2024, the humorist had agreed to go into details against Frédéric Lopez, in his program A Sunday in the countryside.
“We keep that all his life”: Dany Boon tells poverty in his childhood
Alongside the writer Virginie Grimaldi and the successful singer Kendji Girac, this father of five children – Mehdi, Noah, Eytan, Elia and Sarah, recalled that her parents “had nothing”. This son of a truck driver and a housewife added: “When you grew up in poverty, not unhappy, but poor, you keep it all your life”.
Besides, his mother had very earth reactions to her current notoriety. “My mother, I bought her a house, the first thing I did when I had money (…) I give her postcards with the posters of the movies that go out and she will tow in the market (…) I tell her ‘mom, you don’t need to do that’. She does: ‘We never know! Don’t do your proud!’ (…) And she is right. And she puts my feet on the ground“Said the director of Welcome to the Ch’tis.
Dany Boon “worse than poor”: “I did the sleeve”
Whoever combines no less than 46 million admissions to the Box Office all films, and who is back on the boards with his show “Clown is not a job”, had already confided in this subject in the program Seven to eight. “I was very poor. I was not unhappy or envious of the people who were rich. I did the sleeve, my mother was a cleaning lady and my road father. It was complicated for them to pay my piaule. I paid part of my studies by doing the mime, the show in the street, the guitar. I gave myself a chance to get there”he had explained.
“It was really complicated too because I didn’t have a radish. I was worse than poor”had he even added in the columns of Parisian. A beautiful revenge on life for Dany Boon!
