His word is rare but, for Mireille Dumas, the ex-animator of Fitness Davina Delor, agreed to engage in a new video interview. And she did not elected any subject!
It is an exceptional guest that Mireille Dumas received in her program broadcast on YouTube. The former acolyte of Véronique de Villèle, the discreet Davina Delor, agreed to engage in the presenter. Now 73 years old, she has completely detached from the star system.
What job did Davina after television?
If she was a star of the small screen during the 1980s, Davina preferred to move it away very quickly. “What is painful is the image that has remained very very long, that lasts (…) For me things from the past is great, but it remains in the past”she said smiling.
Before specifying: “At the time what forced me was the forced outings at the restaurant, the excessive media, telling your life permanently … And then it was also the surface side!” After television, Davina Delor spent several diplomas in alcohol, drug addiction, hypnosis, Chinese medicine and acupuncture. She also studied at length, until she became a psychoanalyst and to open a cabinet for some time in Paris.
Davina Delor in the face of the death of her son
A life in the service of others for a woman who has herself experienced dramas. When she was 17 years old, her father committed suicide, and she found her body … Many years later, the star of Tonic gym had to face the death of his son, victim of a rupture of aneurysm at the age of 20. “I was in a television shoot when we came to teach me”she explained to Mireille Dumas who then asked him if spirituality had helped him overcome his sentence.
What she replied to: “It helped me, because I have never lost contact with him to start (…). I have always had this spiritual life, and fortunately by the way because through everything I was able to go through a trying during my existence, this spiritual life gave me strength and courage “.
Where does Davina Delor live, who has become a Buddhist monk?
Davina Delor has become a Buddhist monk. In 2006, she even founded a Buddhist monastery located in Vienne. “An extremely withdrawn place where silence reigns, peace reigns”, As she describes herself. The former acolyte of Véronique even made a vows of chastity and therefore no longer has relations with men. “My life I did it, I knew what I had to know and what I wanted to know”she told her interlocutor.
Before detailing his commitment: “For me it is not religious, I did not do it in this direction. I am anti-institution, anti dogma, anti-obligation to follow a truth preached by a person. The link that I maintain with the spirituality is a bond of love. “
Davina Delor and money: what did she do?
A spirituality that also led Davina to make a vows of poverty. “When we take these wishes, we give up. These are wishes for renunciation, but we do not give up life”she described in Mireille Dumas. And her to qualify: “We all have living conditions that are not to deny.” “Isn’t it a question of living in poverty?”then asked him for his host. “What would that serve?”she replied.
Davina earns a little money with pensions in her monastery but especially with the books she writes. She said the large part of her earnings is then donated to children in need.
“It’s unpleasant to age” : what does Davina report maintain with the passing time?
For a long time, Davina was assimilated to a gym coach. Difficult to imagine that she can age therefore. However, the main interested party is at peace with the passing time. “By advancing in age, we inevitably see ourselves age, beauty disappears. We see things of self that we do not necessarily want to look. It would not be honest to say that it is not unpleasant. ‘is unpleasant to age “she confessed to Mireille Dumas. However, it wants to be reassuring: “Aging, it’s not a pain, it’s a life lesson that it is good to learn fairly quickly if you don’t want to suffer too long”.
