Every day, she collects testimonies from anonymous people with inspiring and exceptional, sometimes painful, journeys. In It starts today on France 2 and Hero on RTL, Faustine Bollaert listens attentively to ordinary women and men to whom extraordinary things have happened. This workaholic divides her life between her shows – she also presents La Question box on France 3 – and her family, notably in Brittany, in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo, where the 45-year-old host has a pied-à-terre. Thursday January 16, 2025, in a portrait devoted to him Paris Matchwe learn more about his two children, Abbie and Peter, his relationship with the novelist Maxime Chattam, but also about an episode from his adolescence, when his brother Charles Faraggi fell seriously ill.
Faustine Bollaert accepts it: don’t touch her loved ones
Now living in Miami for a long time, Faustine Bollaert’s older brother was the victim of an anesthesia error which made him very ill, while he was still in high school. Health problems which pushed the host to take care of him until he recovered. “Even today, I am ultra-protective with him. He often tells me that I am more his big sister than his little sister. In fact, I have the instinct of a lioness: you must not touch a hair of my tribe”, she told our colleagues, who followed her to the Côtes d’Armor, where her clan recharges its batteries during the holidays.
Faustine Bollaert: her brother suffering from serious crises
His brother suffered terribly for several months, notably suffering from attacks of tetany, but fortunately ended up cured and then emigrated across the Atlantic, where he studied Fine Arts. “At the time, our relationship changed a lot. I transformed into a big sister, a mother too sometimes… We are close, very close, even if he lives, today, in the United States”had already confided Faustine Bollaert to Parisianin March 2024. It is in the columns of Psychologiesin 2021, that the TV presenter had detailed the very difficult consequences of her brother’s illness. “His body was metamorphosing, his eyes were rolling back, he had to be fed… […] No one came to the house anymore. He was scary and he was scared. He stopped his studies, lost his friends. It sank. He wanted to die, I caught him at the last minute on several occasions.” she detailed, happy that her “hero” was able to return to a normal life.
