William Sheller: “Not because people are camels…”, his confidences about his mother during an extremely rare appearance

Revealed in 1975 with the title Rock’n’Dollars,
William Sheller had a successful career in music. Since 2016, however, the singer has stepped away from the stage due to health problems. On Tuesday December 3, he went to the set of It begins today on France 2.

Faced with Faustine Bollaert, the 78-year-old man agreed to return to the secrets surrounding his birth. Indeed, Paulette Desboeuf's son was raised by Jack Hand, without knowing that he was not his biological father. It was actually about
Colin Thomas MacLeodan American soldier.

William Sheller's mother told him her secret before she died

At the age of 53, William Sheller discovered the existence of his biological father. At that time, his mother's health had just deteriorated. “She was in palliative care and she was a camel. But it is not because people are camels that we should abandon them and reproach them.”, he explained.

During the last months of his mother's life, Johanna and Siegfried's father decided to go to the clinic every day. Although he did not have an easy relationship with her, he wanted to support her at the end of her life. He then heard her mention names he didn't know. “That's how I learned that my father was not Jack Hand” he remembered. Information which did not really surprise him since he had noticed that he “didn't look at all” to his supposed paternal family.

The singer managed to find his biological family

After the death of his mother, William Sheller had
more information on his biological father. “I had Colin. I had Thomas. I had a MacLeod. I had Detroit, Michigan” he told Faustine Bollaert. Enough to allow him to begin research in the United States.

At the beginning of the 2000s, the interpreter ofA happy man thus succeeded in find your biological family. If his father who had “searched all his life” died in 1989, he was able to contact his brother and sister. A few weeks after this discovery, the family was able to “find yourself”. A beautiful moment for someone who now maintains close ties with his siblings.