He returns to his first love, Xavier Deluc is starring in the play Family secretcurrently on tour. Since 2006, the man who made his debut on stage with Robert Hossein, is known to TF1 viewers for playing the character of Martin Bernier in the soap opera Section de recherche, broadcast on TF1.
Usually discreet about his private life, the 66-year-old Norman actor, also in the cast of Tomorrow belongs to us, made some confidences this Friday, November 15, guest of David Barbet in the podcast Censorship
from our Belgian colleagues at Télépro.
Xavier Deluc: follower of Scientology for 35 years
During this interview, Xavier Deluc revealed that he had a happy life. “I have a fulfilling life. I still have lots of dreams. So, I’m happy”he said, as he prepared to film two new episodes of Research Section in the Mountains. If the actor is today an accomplished man, that was not always the case. The Church of Scientology
brought him out of a period of self-destruction
when he was younger.
“It's been 35 years since I joined Scientology,
I feel very good. It helps me a lot in life, It got me off drugsamong other things, and very efficiently”he assured before adding: “These are things that are very intimate and in the realm of religion. I don't have to talk publicly about my life or about my personal or internal problems that I have and that I want to resolve […]
and my journey. It's personal and it deserves respect. We still have the right to have a duty of discretion in relation to that.”
Xavier Deluc admits to having taken drugs
If he has not said more about his affinities with the Church of Scientology, Xavier Deluc has never hidden his past as a drug user when he played music in a rock band. In 2020 in the columns of
Purepeoplethe actor explained how he got through it. “One fine day, I was on a horseback ride in South Africa and I decided to call it quits. I got up in the morning with this idea in mind. And I stopped everything overnight“he said.
The actor then clarified: “I scared myself. I wish it hadn't happened like that… I tried to play tough, I paid the price. I risked my life, but I had the courage to want to get out“. In 1991, with the help of Scientology, Xavier Deluc created the association No to drugs, yes to life. A nice revenge on his troubled past.
