Valérie Bonneton saw her children leave the house and admits to having gone through this moment with difficulty. Very attached to her family, the actress speaks frankly about this void left by their departure.
Valérie Bonneton, starring in the mini-series The Laura Stern affairbroadcast in March on France 2, experienced a delicate stage in her life as a mother: she saw her children leave the nest. An inevitable passage but which can be more or less charged with emotions. The 55-year-old actress experienced this ordeal rather difficultly, as she confided to Gala.
Valérie Bonneton facing the empty nest: “It’s still horrible!“
Nothing is more important than family for the actress. She remained very close to her children, Joseph, 24, and Marguerite, 19, born from her former love with the actor François Cluzet, who both left the nest, to the great dismay of their famous mother. “It’s not like everything suddenly stops, but it’s still horrible! I loved living with them“, she regretted. But Valérie Bonneton knows how to put things into perspective: “Fortunately, we see each other often“.
They are also the first to support her in her daily projects. While Valérie Bonneton had written her work Mom of minein 2024, about the leukemia which affected his son when he was a child and from which he has now recovered, his book will soon be adapted for the cinema. An initiative that delights Joseph and Marguerite, both having “really liked his book“, we read in Gala.
Valérie Bonneton, mother hen: “I always wanted to take care of it as much as possible“
When they were younger, the actress was already a real mother hen who wanted to be constantly there for her children, despite her busy schedule. Besides, she didn’t have a nanny. “I always wanted to take care of it as much as possible. If I had hired a full-time person, they would have also been there when I was not working. It would have been difficult to manage“, she explained to Parenthesis.
It was sometimes complicated to combine her acting career and her life as a mother when her children were younger, but Valérie Bonneton always wanted to remain a mother who was both professionally active and present for her family. “Some women thrive in their homes. Me, I need to realize myself outside of my family life. I always manage not to do a series of shoots so that I can devote myself to my children.“, she said.
Today, although she has to deal with her new life as a mother whose children have left home, she is still fulfilled and at peace with the passage of time. “I feel better than before, prettier for example. I prefer myself now, I take care of myself… It’s never too late to love yourself“, she concluded with Gala.
