Guest on the show It starts today on October 18, 2024 on France 2, Denis Westhoff remembered his childhood with his mother, the writer Françoise Sagan. Only son of the author of the work The Wonderful Clouds, he spoke of his youth very “jovial” et “cheerful” among his mother’s many friends
“The atmosphere at home was very easy, very funny because there were a lot of acquaintances, friends, relations, great people, very funny people, people like Robert Hirsch, there is Michel Serrault who came too. I met a lot of people, there were some really funny people, she chose her friends among witty people. If you like, it’s important to her that people are witty, funny, she prefers to have broke people with whom she laughs than rich people with whom she is bored” confided the writer.
I didn’t feel like I was living with a star at all.
Nostalgic for the moments spent with his mother who died on September 24, 2004, he explains not having known for a long time that his mother was famous. On the set of France 2, he remembers: “I have an image of a completely normal childhood, completely peaceful, completely quiet, she was a mother who was completely attentive, present and concerned about my education and my way of living. I didn’t at all have the impression of living with a star, on top of that, she did everything to ensure that I had a normal childhood, she took care to ensure that no one knew who I was. was at school, I was a little boy like the others“.
As a child, Denis Westhoff didn’t know his mother was famous
The little boy suddenly became aware of his mother’s notoriety during a filming carried out in their house when a television channel had come to their house. “They came to the apartment and at the time, the cameras were gigantic, the projectors, there were big cables running around the house. And there I think I became aware of the importance of his image, of his notoriety rather” he revealed with tenderness.
