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The comedian and actress was, this October 13, the guest of Frédéric Lopez in “A Sunday in the Country”. The opportunity for her to look back with emotion on a traumatic event from her childhood.
Comedian, producer, director, actress. Navel Madani is not afraid to wear many hats in his professional life. A strength of character and resilience that she developed from a very young age following a domestic accident. Invited this October 13 in the program “A Sunday in the Country” by Frédéric Lopez, she agreed to return to this event which turned her childhood upside down.
The youngest of her family, she grew up surrounded by her two sisters, aged 6 and 7 years older than her respectively. It is also with them that Nawell Madani will do his biggest stupid things, his parents being absent for the needs of their jobs. Only, one stupid mistake changed the little girl she was. She was then two and a half years old. “It was a day when my mother was there but there were a lot of guests. I start dancing on the table and lose my balance. I catch myself on the fryer and it falls on me. I get a third degree burn,” told the actress in front of Frédéric Lopez, and the two other guests of the day, Chris Marques and Anne Sila.
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«My mother, being a nurse, had the first actions. She immediately put me in the bathroom and emptied everything that was in the fridge, the bottles of milk to refresh the skin straight away. she recalled while confiding the growing concern of the time. “At first, we didn’t know how badly I was affected, if I was even going to lose my sight because my whole face was burned. I lost part of my hair.”
“It turned my life and that of my family upside down. My parents almost divorced after this event. she said with emotion. Her daily life as a little girl was also strongly impacted by this accident. “I spent my childhood wearing caps and bonnets. she detailed while explaining that to hide the consequences of her burns as much as possible, she pulled her remaining hair into a ponytail on her forehead. “As soon as there was movement of the duvet, you could see that I was missing hair.”
This difference also isolated her from other children. “I didn’t have many friends. […] We were making fun of it. They called me “butt head” or “kojak”. Finally I had all the nicknames that could exist. And my sisters became my bodyguards.” To add additional defense to these mockeries, Nawell Madani trained his repartee and his sense of humor.
