At 53, Hélène Ségara is soon releasing a book as well as an album of duets, but His best hat is always mom’s. In the Gala columns, this week, the former Esmeralda from the musical “Notre Dame de Paris” made beautiful confidences about his offspring.
She has a grown-up son, Raphaël, whom she raised alone, as well as two other children, Matteo, born in 2003 and Maya, born in 2004, from her marriage to Mathieu Lecat.
News from Hélène Ségara’s three children
About them, she confides that they have it “more often seen cooking than in a celebrity dress. Always there for them, Hélène Ségara, however, managed to cut the cord. And she welcomes it.
The singer of “I love you, goodbye” revealed : “All three are young adults today. My eldest, Raphaël, works in cateringin Paris. Matteo studies medicine in the United States.
Maya is pursuing a course in psychology in Canada“.
And to add about these last two: “Distance is not always easy to live with. But no parent is forever, so I feel a certain satisfaction, a certain relief to see them become independent”. Moreover, Hélène Ségara thinks so: “The most important thing for a mother is to leave behind strong children who feel good about themselves.”
She was able to count on them during her major health crisis, when she was told that she had optic neuritis. Since then, Hélène Ségara even admits that they became closer thanks to her illness. “With my children, We say ‘I love you’ more often than before.” she explains.
What they taught him
And especially with his daughter. She who has “adult discussions with all your children” specifies that she has “probably a little more scared for Maya, because she’s a girl.” And to detail: “I hope that no man will disrespect her, that she will not allow herself to be dominated. That’s not what love is. I have never sought to be dominant. I have never accepted not to be dominated either”.
In their relationship, Hélène Ségara also learns a lot. And in particular that she should not “Don’t try to be perfect.”or even that she could not “not carry everything on your shoulders“, she said. She who believed for a long time that she could “to be a singer, a mother, a wife at the same time” blurted out the matter. And these are his children who have it “relieved of guilt”she declares.
