Nora Hamzawi opens up about her father's death

The end of the year is approaching and Frédéric Lopez met viewers for a final episode of “A Sunday in the Country”. This December 22, the host received the singer Calogero, the writer Valérie Perrin and the comedian Nora Hamzawi .

As usual, the PAF confidant invited his guests to immerse themselves in their childhood through a photo of them when they were younger. “Let's imagine, like in a science fiction film, that we could go back in time and whisper something in this granddaughter's ear. You who know the rest of the story, what would you tell him?said the host of France Télévisions to the 41-year-old actress.

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“I would tell him everything will be fine. But I know she already knows that. That is to say that I think that I have something, I don't know if it is of the order of magical thinking, but when I was little I know that there is a very strong thing of order of the best is yet to come. I can't wait to grow, can't wait for what's next.”explained Nora Hamzawi.

The one who was born in Cannes but grew up in Paris surrounded by her brother, her two sisters and her mother confided that she lost her father very young, at the age of a year and a half. “We grow up in a hyper-charged, hyper-heavy atmosphere because of grief and everything. […] It's funny but I had a certain form of guilt for a long time, telling myself that I had experienced the drama less than the others because I was less aware of it. I told myself that I had a chance that others don't have. she said with hindsight. It was also at this time that she took on a role in the family of “lightness” to bring joy.

“We are in a rather special family. I will try to say as little bad things as possible about my mother.”she joked before continuing more seriously: “I think there are people who have an ability or a desire to celebrate the memory of people who are leaving. And there are others, a bit like my mother, who have a tendency – and everyone does what they can – to make a clean slate. […] More than a mother, she is also one of those mothers who are a bit like children, so it was very much us who consoled her as if her pain should be more important than ours”declared the comedian while admitting to having always been very afraid of sadness.