A year after his release from Star Academy 2023, Lénie is preparing to return to television in a new talent show: Dancing with the Stars. The young woman who wants to progress in dance looks back on her songs and the one, in particular, which deals with her complicated relationship with her father.
With less than a month before the launch of the fourteenth season of Dancing with the StarsLénie, former student of the Star Academy – who is part of the cast of the TF1 dance show – gave an interview to our colleagues at Here is. The 19-year-old young woman talks about her success and her sudden notoriety since leaving the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys, her childhood but also her hopes and her career. The one who has already spoken about the absence of her father, with whom she has had a very complicated relationship since she was a child, released, in September 2024, a single entitled Without youwhich returns to this lack.
“I don’t expect anything” : Lazy (Star Academy) evokes her father, absent from her life and with whom she has a very complicated relationship
“In your title Without youyou are referring to the painful absence of your dad in your life… Did he react to your words?“, ask our colleagues from Here is to Lénie in the interview they devoted to her for their edition of this Friday, January 17. “I didn’t do it for that, I don’t expect anything“, replied the young woman. “This song, I wrote it to express hurts that had never been heard. And so that they echo those of those who have experienced the same thing as me. There are unfortunately many of us. If my words do them good, then I’m happy“, she added while revealing the discovery of a phrase which helped her a lot when she was going badly: “‘Life throws in your path everything that you are capable of overcoming.’ I had it tattooed on my back, along my spine. Sometimes I doubted so much! It saved me. Today I go for it, I trust myself“.
“It scared me“: Lénie looks back on her exit from the Star Academy and his change of life
Since the end of his adventure Star Ac’Lénie released three singles – I’m no longer afraid, Without you et Divinein the clip of which she appears very in love with an actor from More beautiful life, even more beautiful – all on subjects more personal than the others. “I write a lot, but I get help because it’s a new exercise for me. We exchange ideas and then I follow my heart“, she confided to our colleagues at Here is about his songs. And to express his feelings about his sudden notoriety: “I’m just discovering myself as an artist. Everything happened so quickly… I entered the Star Ac’ with 200 followers on social media, I came out with thousands of fans, it was so crazy it scared me.”
