Why is Yannick Noah still barefoot? “There is a kind of feeling of …”

Going to the Monte-Carlo film festival on June 16, to present the police film Death on clay In which he will soon be illustrated as an actor, Yannick Noah gave an interview to Legend. Endless and joyful, he fell in front of any questions. Not even the most original!

Complexed Yannick Noah? “My feet are horrible!”

Now 65 years old, Yannick Noah is an emblematic figure of tennis for some, and a music star for others. And he will also try his comedy soon alongside Florent Peyre in Denis Malleval’s film. But the whole of France knows the interpreter of Africa saga For another fact, more surprising: it is always barefoot! “What is your secret to have beautiful feet?”asked him Legendin a video extract unveiled on Instagram.

Amused, Yannick Noah agreed to go into details. “You are very nice, I have horrible feet. My feet are horrible! (…) The story was that at the time I had my sponsor that made my custom shoes to me. And this mold I got it when I was 19 years old. And I kept the same mold for almost ten years. Except that my feet have grown so I have feet they are horrible … “

Here’s why Yannick Noah never wears (almost) shoes

“I like to be barefoot. When I’m barefoot there is a kind of feeling of freedom. As soon as I can I am barefoot”finally clarified the former tennis player, who is also the last Frenchman to have won Roland-Garros in 1983. It was not the first time that this father of six children, including Keelaani, his youngest, born in 2024 of his relationship with his current partner Malika, speaks on his right rite.

Already in 2021, the tribe chief explained himself on this subject in the Cameroonian media Yayato :: “When I’m fine in a good place, where I feel good, I’m barefoot, and when I’m in a place where I don’t feel comfortable, to feel comfortable, I get barefoot and all of a sudden, I feel myself, I feel in contact with the ground, nature, the rest”. An art of living!