This Tuesday, January 7, from 9:10 p.m., see you on M6 which is relaunching its extreme adventure show The Island. Seven years after the broadcast of the last season, in 2018, new personalities were invited to challenge themselves in hostile land, and more precisely on a virgin island off the coast of Malaysia. For ten days, they had to find ways to feed themselves, sleep and, above all, survive. In the casting, viewers will be able to find Delphine Wespiser, Julien Cohen, Sidney Govou or even Patrick Puydebat and Pierre-Ambroise Bosse. At the presentation, it is Loury Lag who was recruited. He succeeds Mike Horn, presenting the same qualities of a great explorer.
It was by setting out to discover the world that Loury Lag managed to save himself from his own life. During a portrait for Seven to eight produced in 2022 by Audrey Crespo-Mara, he explained that he had suffered from physical violence from his father for years. “Every time he came home, the only way to resolve the problems was to slap him. We are really talking about mistreatment and beatings more than pushing and shoving“, he reported, specifying that he also had “suffered psychological violence from (his) mother“in parallel.”She was in the process of becoming a psychiatrist and therapist and I was a bit like her guinea pig. She was a bit of a castrating mother and that ruined my childhood.“.
Laury Lag, from abused child to homeless teenager
Life experiences that pushed him to run away at 17. “There is this scene where I see my father dragging my brother by the hair and hitting him very hard and there I decide to go up to my room to retrieve a hunting knife that I had won at the Fair and there I threaten him and my mother intervenes between us. It’s very hard, it’s very violent, I see my mother screaming and I swear to my father that if he lays hands on one of my brothers, I will kill him in his sleep. From there, there is a very strong split and I leave home and never come back“, he confided at the time.
Laury Lag then becomes homeless and falls into delinquency. “We start by selling a little drugs, there are a lot of fights with people on the street and from other neighborhoods. And then we unfortunately climb the ladder until we arrive at weapons, robberies, kidnapping. I turned 20, after a year on the run for assault with a weapon by an organized gang and so I went to detention for these facts.“. After 5 years of being banned from the territory, the adventurer finally makes a change of life and sets off to explore the world: “I left to be a new man“.
During these last fifteen years of travel, Laury Lag has also had the time to take a lot of perspective on her life. He even came to forgive his father and took him with him on different expeditions. “It was incredibly beautiful, a lot of emotions, attempts at dialogue, I found the one I had never known: my father“, he remembered again. A father unfortunately known late in life, when he fell ill and knew he was doomed. A year after their boat crossing the Atlantic, Laury’s father died, taking with him all the bad memories of his son.
