“Becoming a mother put me in the place of the dead”

On April 4, Maïtena Biraben received in Ladies The popular actress Anny Duperey. The interpreter of Catherine Beaumont in the cult series of TF1, A Wonderful family, notably mentioned his children. And what she says about maternity is surprising.

Anny Duperey did not want children: “The disaster will stop there”

When Maïtena Biraben asked Anny Duperey: “Wasn’t maternity evidence for you?”the actress’s response now aged 77 was final: “No, it’s true”. And it is to explain: “Psychoanalytically, there is an explanation. It is that becoming a mother put me in the place of the dead”. Indeed, the actress lost her two parents, intoxicated with carbon monoxide, when she was only 8 years old.

“My mother was dead, if I gave birth to it … maybe there was that below. But above all, there was still the anger against them who had left me in the big world alone, not even sick, nothing, by accident like that. And I believe that somewhere, a part of my anger it was: ‘since that’s it, everything will stop with me.’ There will be no descendants, the disaster will stop there “she added.

Anny Duperey who has become a mother … and grandmother!

It was Bernard Giraudeau, with whom she lived for fifteen years, who finally convinced her to take the step of maternity. Together, they had two children: Gaël and the actress Sara Giraudeau. “Bernard said to me one day: ‘The refusal of the child at this point, it is a form of suicide’. And I know where I received this sentence. I did not react at all (…) I recognized the implacable accuracy of the thing (…) and it worked alone”explained Anny Duperey. Statements that confirm those held on Channel+ A few years ago: “Words worked on their own and six months later, I was pregnant.”

Since then, Anny Duperey – who will be on the boards of the Théâtre de la Michodière, in Paris, April 15 in Come Poupoule! -became a grandmother of four grandchildren: Mona, Bonnie, Romy and Suzanne. “The arrival of my granddaughter is the third link in this new channel. It makes it even more tangible the fact that I had children, that there is a line that leaves. I now feel like at the beginning of a golden age of family, at the dawn of a very rich period. This consoles a lot of what could have happened before. What is a shame is that Bernard is no longer there to know”she had declared moved in Paris Match, At the birth of his first granddaughter in 2011.