Childhood and adolescence were not a long, quiet course for Marilou Berry. The actress and daughter of Josiane Balasko spoke without filter about a period of her life that she hated…
It’s in Laurent Mariotte’s YouTube show, Boustifaillethat Marilou Berry confided about her young years. And don’t think that having two artist parents made her life easier… Quite the contrary!
Marilou Berry: “The children there were abandoned rich kids”
The daughter of Josiane Balasko (with whom she currently shares the stage in the play That’s love), and the late Philippe Berry had a particularly difficult school career, from a very young age. Moreover, the 43-year-old actress has associated school with a whole lot of suffering. In her schooling, she did “almost everything that exists”. “I tested everything: public, private, non-contract, pension. I never managed to fit into the framework”she had also explained to Gala a few years ago.
For Marilou Berry, school “wasn’t very pleasant”. “I first went to Montessori, which was actually my only good memory of school. Afterwards I worked in the public (…)”she informed her host at the table. “Afterwards my parents kept saying ‘be careful because if you don’t do anything, you’ll go to boarding school’. So I said ‘fine, put me in boarding school'”she then remembered. Before continuing, not without bitterness: “I spent a year in a boarding house for abandoned rich children in Maisons-Lafitte (in Yvelines, editor’s note)“. “The children there were really abandoned rich kids, which I wasn’t anyway…”she remembered.
Marilou Berry “depressive” because of the school: “I was lucky to have understanding parents”
Despite everything, the actress admits that she “a little bit reconnected with education” And “learned” more in this strict pension. But his return to the traditional education system was all the more complicated. “It was a trauma, synonymous with educational violence, authoritarianism, human stupidity, gratuitous nastiness”had detailed the one who shares her life with the street artist Le Diamantaire to our colleagues from Gala.
“In second grade, I became depressed. I was lucky to have understanding parents: they allowed me to stop classes because there was no point in continuing. Afterwards, I joined the Conservatory. It was a revelation”Andy’s mother finally concluded.
