“Like a dead leaf on a bed”: Marc Lavoine unfiltered on his father in Sept à Huit

Marc Lavoine spoke about his parents in an interview for TF1. The singer was also cash on his father.

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IN BRIEF

• Marc Lavoine éevoques the disappearance of his mother Micheline Collin, who died in 2011, and his feelings of guilt in the show Sept à Eight.
• He describes his mother as a courageous woman and his father as absent, revealing a shared secret about religion.
• Discover how Marc Lavoine transforms his grief into therapy through his book “Quand arriver les chevaux”.

Marc Lavoine spoke about his missing mother in Sept à Huit on TF1. For a long time, the singer felt responsible for her death. “My mother died badly. I remember being at home and hearing myself say that if I don't get her out of the clinic, she's going to die. I didn't get her out because I didn't want to piss her off and bother the neighbors and her friends. It was her little world.” he says.

Marc Lavoine also spoke of his father, a fickle and absent man.The praise goes to his mother. “Brunette, she had an incredibly pure gaze, the revolver eyes, those are hers. I was crazy about my mother.” explains the cult interpreter of Eyes Revolver.

Marc Lavoine paints a portrait of his father

Marc Lavoine shared a secret with his mother: religion. “She believed in God. You shouldn't have told my father, who was a non-believer and a communist. She was a courageous woman and did a lot of things, she took care of everything at the house. Luckily we were there, we filled his rather solitary life.“ he said, speaking of himself and his friends who came to the house.

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Indeed, his father was not very present in his life. “She loved only one man. She waited for him like a dead leaf on a bed. My mother always waited for him, he was always somewhere else. Until she decided to end things with him” he explains. “She was everything to me. She was my fixed landmark. She was the woman I loved. She is everything in my novel, everything she inspired in me and said.”

The singer returns to the loss of his mother.

His mother sufferedbefore dying. “She underwent three operations, she was very fragile on the anesthesia. I blamed myself, I felt guilty for a long time, she could have lived a few more years. I regret it, she was young. She was 73 when she died.” he said. Micheline Collin, the mother of Marc Lavoine, died in 2011. In On n'est pas couché on France 2 in 2018, the artist spoke about the illness she suffered from, lypémania. “It's a little deeper than melancholy. My mother suffered from this illness. It's a melancholy at a higher level than the others.” he explained.

When he saw her leave little by little, Marc Lavoine says he had the“impression of losing the center of the world”. On TF1, he returned with emotion to this period. “I don't know where I'm parked, I don't know where I live, I don't know where I am, I don't know who I am, I fall to the ground. I can't even speak.” he remembers. His book When the horses arrive (Éed. Fayard). is a real therapy. “Çit lasted until I published the book. I didn't accept it, I didn't let it go in fact.”