Faustine Bollaert received three celebrities on the set of It begins today, on France 2, on Tuesday December 3. Indeed, the host welcomed William Sheller, Nathalie Rheims and Dominique Dimey for a show devoted to secrets and lies. Faced with her, the writer thus evoked the mystery around his biological father.
Born in April 1959, Nathalie Rheims is the daughter of Lili Krahmer and academician Maurice Rheims. During her childhood, she saw once a week a psychologist named Sergewho was actually having an affair with his mother. A man she knew, moreover, nine months before her birth.
The writer refused to take a paternity test
After several years of mystery, Nathalie Rheims questioned her mother to find out who her biological father was. A question Lili Krahmer was asked
unable to answer. “She adds very quickly, as if to lift a weight off herself: 'But if you want, you take a paternity test, they will agree'” she remembered.
If the author of One for the other had the possibility of knowing the truth, she finally declined this proposal. She explained: “I knew at that moment that it was the only thing that was going to save me, not knowing. It was impossible, I loved them too much, madly, passionately. And they gave me this kind of unconditional love”.
Nathalie Rheims: “I think it suited everyone”
By agreeing to do a paternity testNathalie Rheims thinks she would be “gone crazy”. According to her, the result could have had disastrous consequences on her life, that of Maurice Rheims and Serge. “I think that suited everyone. It would have caused such a tragedy…” she told Faustine Bollaert.
Finally, the 65-year-old woman explained that her decision had been motivated in particular by her “fear of being abandoned by both”. Nathalie Rheims therefore continued to maintain an official father-daughter relationship with the academician and to see the psychologist regularly. Their relationship eventually ended when Serge developed Parkinson's disease
and his condition deteriorated.
