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Prolific writer, Philippe Besson is also a man committed to the political level. The novelist is currently in the middle of a promotion campaign for his latest work called Talk to you about my sonpublished by Julliard editions. He thus granted an interview to the magazine Gala Thursday, January 23, 2025. An interview during which, he was notably accompanied by former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. As a reminder, the writer and the politician met for the first time in 2016, that is, practically ten years ago. At the time, The novelist followed the campaign ofEmmanuel Macronwhich had just left the government to launch its own political party, with a view to the 2017 presidential election. Philippe Besson and Gabriel Attal quickly became friends.
During their joint interview in the pages of Galathe two men confided in their relationship. In particular, they explained to having come closer due to the trauma they both share. “”We are both homosexuals And we have, both, been harassed adolescents“said Philippe Besson.”I remember insults, banishment, humiliations, my shame“also added the writer.”We keep this trauma in itself“, also said Gabriel Attal on his side. The former Prime Minister also said that he had not had”the heart to pour out with his parents at the time“.
-Gabriel Attal had already confided in the harassment he was the victim during his adolescence
“Often, people aged 40 or 50 approach me on the street to tell me about harassment. I think they will evoke their children but, in reality, that is what they themselves have experienced that they want tell and that sometimes melts them into tears“, notably revealed Gabriel Attal. For the record, the former resident of Matignon had indicated during an interview with the program Seven to eight in 2023 that he had been the victim of a “insulting“During his adolescence, which had been”very violent” pendant “several months“. “It was on my sexual orientation, supposed at the time, because I did not speak about it around me […] What was hard for me, and which is also today for many young people, is sometimes The feeling that we have no one to talk to it“, had also added Gabriel Attal.
