Invited on the set of Chez Jordan on Wednesday January 8, 2025, Brigitte Fossey looked back on the many highlights of her career but also on the significant events in her private life.
She was only 5 years old when her film career began, with the phenomenal success of Banned gamesin 1952. Brigitte Fossey, who became a recognized actress in cinema, theater and television, toured with the greatest: Bertrand Blier in The Valseuses (1974), François Truffaut in The Man Who Loved Women (1977) or even The Boomcult film which made Sophie Marceau famous in 1980. Guest on the set of At Jordan’sthis Wednesday, January 8, 2025, the 78-year-old actress retraced the highlights of her career and her private life, evoking in particular the suicide of her ex-husband, the filmmaker Jean-François Adam, who gave himself the died in 1980.
Brigitte Fossey passed on a taste for music and travel to her daughter Marie
How did Brigitte Fossey support their daughter Marie Adam, then aged 12 and become an actress, through this ordeal? “By trying to convey to her the love of life through music. She studied piano and harp at the Boulogne Conservatory… But also by traveling a lot with her… Showing her the world! For a year or two, I got up every morning at 7 a.m., even though I worked at the theater until 3 a.m., for breakfast…”she explained to Jordan de Luxe. And to recognize, with great frankness: “Suddenly, we had a delicious life together and even more pleasant than before. Because unfortunately, her father never took care of her. But then suddenly I took matters in hand.”
Between Brigitte Fossey and Yves Samama, it’s been going on for over 30 years
If Brigitte Fossey was more inclined to confide in the brutal death of Jean-François Adam, former assistant to François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Melville, this was not the case during her previous visit to the set of At Jordan, in February 2023. Faced with the same interviewer, the actress brushed aside her attempt to discuss the suicide of her ex-husband. “Don’t go too far, I’ll never come back otherwise. I’m warning you.”she said. From now on, the one who played Sophie Marceau’s mother in The Boom has shared his life with Yves Samama, dental surgeon, for over 30 years. “When I met my husband, the father of my daughter Marie had died a few years ago. I had been a mother at 20 and I lived with my little one a bit like a sister,” she confided to Galain 2021.
