Thierry Ardisson, “locked in the cold by his mother”: his very violent “childhood”

Thierry Ardisson did not have an easy childhood. The native of Bourganeuse, in the Creuse, grew up in a relatively modest family, when he dreamed of living in opulence and was raised by an unusual mother. The man in black agreed to make intimate confidences to Gala…

Thierry Ardisson, “locked in the cold” by his mother: his complicated childhood

Thierry Ardisson grew up with a housewife mother, but who did not have “maternal instinct“.”When I was 3 years old, she locked me on the balcony, in the cold, so as not to hear me scream during my eczema attacks!“, He said. Despite everything, the host, now 76 years old, does not want his mother, who had a particularly difficult childhood and had fragile mental health.

“”She had been abandoned as a child in a toy store by her mother, who left with her lover. She stayed with her father to whom she served a little good to do everything. Then, she had me very young, at 19, without the manual. My mother was maniacodépressive. Some days she had her ‘black ideas’ as she said“, He detailed.

Thierry Ardisson: his “very violent” experience at the boarding school

Thierry Ardisson was therefore far from being a model child. He even almost killed his little brother, unwittingly, putting fire to a barn, which earned him to be sent to Annecy. And the spouse of Audrey Crespo-Mara has lively memories of this period: “It was very violent, cold showers, mass in Latin. At the same time, it forged me“.

But he regrets his behavior with one of his comrades of the time, which he long harassed, a boy named Vitipon and suffering from polio. “”It was continued, it was struck, with this barbarism that the kids can show. There, I really feel guilty“, He deplored.

Thierry Ardisson, “exchanged at maternity”? “I was ashamed …”

Throughout his childhood, the ex-presenter of Everyone talks about it had the feeling of having been “exchanged at maternity“So much he felt that”This family did not correspond to him“. He dreamed of wealth when he grew up in a modest environment:”I was ashamed of my parents, I wanted them to be what they were; people resigned in their condition “.

It is to try to earn money and detach from this family condition that Thierry Ardisson went to Paris from the majority and worked there in advertising, as a designer-editor, then in television. With hindsight, he regrets having wanted his parents to it: “I am ashamed of being ashamed. They had nothing to do with the fact that I was not born in the right place“.