Jean-Marc Généreux is always in a good mood in “Dance with the stars”. However, the dancer has experienced many family dramas, including the handicap of his daughter. With “France Sunday”, he agreed to confide in this reality difficult to accept …
If Jean-Marc Généreux makes the French public dream on the package of Dance with stars Since 2011, his private life has been far from a fairy tale. And for good reason, it was marked by personal dramas, to which he agreed to return on March 24 in France Sunday.
Jean-Marc generous, struck by dramas: “terrible suffering”
The 62 -year -old dancer and choreographer, married to France Mousseau for many years, detailed to our colleagues the loss of one of his sons in 1996, then the discovery, three years later, of the heavy pathology of their daughter Francesca, suffering from a very rare neurological syndrome, Rett syndrome. Besides, the juror of Dance with stars admitted it from the start of his interview: his existence was “Ploted very high and very low”.
“In 1996, when France (his wife, editor’s note), after having followed a treatment for fertility, awaited twins, we were taught that one of the two fetuses had died in utero (…) Losing this boy was a terrible suffering for both”, he said first. Before declaring: “Two years after the birth of our son, France fell pregnant, but she made a miscarriage. We were devastated”. And continue: “Then Francesca arrived. But when she was twenty months old, we were taught that our little princess had reached Rett syndrome, a genetic disease causing motor attacks and a mental handicap”.
Jean-Marc generous, devastated by the diagnosis of his daughter: “Losing a child who is alive …”
A pathology for which there is still no treatment today, and that the generous family only discovered late therefore. “My partner had noticed that Francesca encountered difficulties in walking and that she never reached out to him”explained Jean-Marc Généreux to journalists.
“One evening, when my daughter was crying, I returned to her room and I noticed that she could not catch her pacifier which was however only a few centimeters. I then achieved the seriousness of the situation. Francesca was losing its fine and global motor functions”he then detailed. Before concluding: “When the diagnosis fell, I was demolished. It is a heartbreak to lose a child who is alive …”.
Now aged 26, the young woman is still subject to epilepsy attacks. “She sleeps in a padded bed surrounded by safety barriers so as not to injure herself”noted Jean-Marc Généreux, also father of Jean-Francis, 29 years old. “She spoke, she will no longer speak, she was walking, she will no longer walk. She will enter a deep regression”also said the author of Each step is a life lesson In A Sunday in the countryside This Sunday, March 23. Before concluding: “I have never again become the same guy again”.
