This Thursday, November 7, on France Inter, the emotion was there. Léa Salamé spoke of the difficult childhood of one of her guests.
The projects of Franck Gastambide are always a success. After the movies Pattaya, Taxi 5 and the series
Valid, the French actor and producer returns to the forefront with the release of The cage on Netflix from November 15.
It is also to talk about this new series around combat sports that Franck Gastambide joined Léa Salamé on France Inter, this Thursday, November 7. But at the end of the interview, the host mentioned a particularly sensitive subject: her childhood. A period which was difficult for him, and which still affects him today.
Franck Gastambide on the verge of tears, he talks about his childhood
“You say that your childhood, bookseller father, housekeeper mother, middle class, that was it…”, launches Léa Salamé before broadcasting a passage from the song Holidays by the sea by Michel Jonasz. Lyrics that illustrate, in some way, his past. “She can make me cry that one. We're far from rap, but we're not that far from the beginnings of my life.” slips Franck Gastambide, moved.
“Was that really your childhood?” insists the journalist. “I can't talk much about that. Because the path has andhas longet
along the way we take blowsand I try to be proud of the journey. It's not always easy”he declared. Suffering from dyslexia and dyspraxia, Franck Gastambide suffered enormously from these invisible handicaps.
Invisible and difficult disabilities to live with
“I didn't have confidence in myself. So I can't blame those who didn't believe in me. The journey has been strewn with pitfalls”, he admits, before listing all the things he can't do like the others. “The list of things I cannot do and for which I feel totally humiliated and ridiculed is long.
[…] Reciting the alphabet in one go is also very complicated for me. So there is this kind of paradox where sometimes, we people who have invisible disabilities, we will be better than others at certain things and then unable to participate in a board game. It is obviously sometimes very complicated to live with“.
Despite all the difficulties, Franck Gastambide managed to obtain his first diploma last July, at the age of 45. He was made a knight of arts and letters. “It’s very difficult to have your first diploma at 45. Obviously, we have the impression that this is given to us a little to please us. When I call my mother to tell her that I have just obtained my first diploma at 45, when I know the pain it caused her to have a kid who was incapable of even having his diploma colleges, it's a lot of emotion”he concluded.
