Every Sunday, Harry Roselmack presents Seven to Eight on TF1, mixing major reports and confidences. This December 22, 2024, the show concluded with a moving portrait of Jean-Claude Van Damme, looking back on his career and his personal regrets.
Like every week, Harry Roselmack met TF1 viewers for a new issue of Seven to Eight. This Sunday, December 22, 2024, from 5:20 p.m., the host transported the show's faithful to the Château de Chenonceau then to the Halles de Dijon. The public was also able to follow the first steps of Angélique Angarni-Filopon, Miss France 2025. In the last part of the program, Audrey Crespo-Mara spoke with Jean-Claude Van Damme in order to create her portrait. The Belgian is promoting the new film in which he stars, The Gardener by David Charhon. This action comedy in which he stars alongside Michaël Youn and Nawell Madani will be released on Friday January 10 on Prime Video.
On the sidelines of this news, the eccentric actor spoke at length to the journalist. Now aged 64, he looked back on his youth. “I was not treated well. I lost my very first love. […] JI was in a sense betrayed and it really destroyed mehe admitted. As a guy who is very, very sensitive, it screwed me up for the rest of my life. It's very, very hard for me to fall in love. Besides, after this girl, I always rejected love. Five divorces. So I believe in love but I reject it.”
Jean-Claude Van Damme : “I don't think my children love me very much”
Jean-Claude Van Damme, who almost played with Vin Diesel, then took stock of his existence: “I've had a great life. I have small regrets. I lost the relationship with my children“, he admitted, moved. Before saying more: “I've been in hotels for fifty years so they don't know me. And I don't think my children, at the moment, like me very much. I regret it. I don't know if it will be fixed.”
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