In his show “Yesterday I Quit!”, Doully recounts with derision real life scenes, between his past addictions and a debilitating neurological illness, all in the form of an outlet.
She performed in the same way this Sunday against Audrey Crespo-Mara in “Sept à Huit”.
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The smile as a standard! This is perhaps what best sums up the comedian Doully. This thirty-year-old blonde with the face of an angel nevertheless hides many cracks. Finally, she tries, because with tattoos full of forearms and a voice “drunk guy”as she likes to say, we would have quickly cataloged her. “I have the voice of someone who has lived, the problem is that I really have had this voice since I was four years old”, she says to Audrey Crespo-Mara in the video above, replay of the “Portrait of the week” broadcast this Sunday in “Sept à Huit”, as if to brush away the problem. However, Doully’s existence is far from being that of everyone.
She started at 14 when she decided to leave her artist parents. His father is a guitarist and his mother a painter, “but they were graphic designers to give us food”, she adds, while specifying: “We were poor, we had no money at all, but they managed to make us feel rich with their love.” The reason for this hasty departure, as futile as it is surprising: “I didn’t have a room. Four of us lived in a 30m² apartment”, she says with a burst of laughter. But his desires for elsewhere are in fact deeper. She explains: “One day I said to my parents: ‘you have to let me go’, because I didn’t want to one day tell them something that was going to go beyond my thoughts and I felt like that was what I was up to.”
You should never say things in a pathos way, and above all, you should never dramatize.
Doully
She admits today, maybe it wasn’t the best idea. Because overnight, she invited all the homeless people in the neighborhood to her studio. “At the beginning, I worked quite a bit, I was quite diligent in high school, and after the second year, it declined because I started to welcome people who lived on the street (…) They were meetings and then finally, it becomes a friend (…) There were seven of us in 26 m², it was nice, but it’s true that there were a lot of parties.” she says. Scenes of life on the street or even drugs that she talks about in her show “Yesterday I Quit!”.
It must be said that the young woman begins to touch heroin when dealers, wanted by the police, leave her “all their gear”. “It’s true that I could have thrown it away or resold it, but I put it all away”, she admits with irony. What follows is a long obstacle course from 18 to 22 years old. “It’s really the worst drug because it’s a physical drug. That is to say, your brain wants to stop, but your body tells you no. So you know you’re doing shit, it’s not good for you, but your body tells you no because as soon as you stop, it’s excruciating pain. It’s a bit like flu X 1000 with the added irritation, It’s atrocious”, she describes.
The young woman quickly fell into addiction and tried all the drugs, overdosed three times, but again, she got away with a twist. “The overdose is just a calculation error”, she says. A way of using laughter to also warn of dangers. “You should never say things in a pathos way, and above all, you should never dramatize. Once you have laughed, you can say: ‘I was a bit stupid all the same'”, she says.
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To cope, she followed a withdrawal program. However, she specifies that it is also necessary “clinging to a little dream and wanting to achieve it on an empty stomach”. And for Doully, his outlet was the stage. Quite a revenge on life when we know that the young woman also suffers from a genetic anomaly, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. “It’s a neurological disease which causes your foot to be very arched, it atrophies the tendons a little, which means that I have no stability on my feet and it also makes my hands tremble,” she explains. As a result, the standing position is very complicated, “and I chose to do stand-up”, she laughs. Certainly, Doully will not lose his smile. A vital self-deprecation, according to her. “It’s very nice to make fun of yourself (…) Even in the worst of the worst, I think you have to be able to find the joke. You have to be able to laugh at everything in the most serious moments”she concludes.
