If for many of us, consanguinity is a subject that can lend itself to humor, for others, it is a reality.
A reality that can have consequences on life. Whether from a health, social or even self-image point of view.
On the set of the show A Sunday in the Countrysideactor and comedian Baptiste Lecaplain made shocking revelations about his family and on the context in which he came into the world. Heavy revelations that he nevertheless made with great delicacy while delivering a harshness that one could not imagine.
Baptiste Lecaplain discusses the context of his birth
Hosted by Frédéric Lopez, the show A Sunday in the Countryside plunges us into the heart secrets from the host's guests. Yesterday, Sunday December 1, Baptiste Lecaplain was present alongside Audrey Dana and Louis Chedid. Everyone will talk about their life journey, how they got there, but also their family and their history. After Audrey Dana, it was around Baptiste Lecaplain to speak, for a few minutes, about his personal and family history.
Born in 1985 in Mortain, 40 km from Mont Saint-Michel, the actor and comedian addressed, not without emotion, the context of his coming into the world. “My parents are trying to have children“, he explains. “My mother lost two children at birth, two children with Down syndrome. And the doctors say my dad got a gene, a chromosome that I think comes from,
if we go back a little before, I think there must have been a little inbreeding. And we tell them “there you go, you will never have normal children”“.
A suffering alcoholic father
A revelation that is enough to upset everyone present on the set. Baptiste Lecaplain will continue to explain that his birth is far from the idyllic one that we could wish for every child. “My father had some drinking problems at the time.“, he will continue to explain, evoking the suicide of his grandmother when his father was only 16 years old, still a teenager, a child.
The comedian also explained that after his mother's suicide, the entire village in which he grew up overwhelmed his father with this gesture. The man was then forced to stop school and put his life aside to provide for his brother and two sisters. But he is already in pain and plunges into alcohol. So, when the doctors tell him and his wife that they will never be able to “have normal children“, it's an additional drama. And Baptiste Lecaplain's father will dive deeper into alcohol. An addiction that he will never be able to quit, despite the birth of two children.
