This Sunday, January 5, Frédéric Lopez received three new guests in A Sunday in the countryside. Major Mouvement, the physiotherapist who is a hit on social networks, spoke about his father’s disability.
After a best-of episode between Christmas and New Year’s Day, A Sunday in the countryside was back on France 2 with a new episode. Three new celebrities have embarked for a bucolic stay, invited by Frédéric Lopez: the singer Michel Fugain, the fencer Manon Apithy-Brunet and Major Mouvement, whose real name is Grégoire Gibault, the physiotherapist who has nearly 2 million subscribers on social networks. Together, they spoke directly to the host.
“His head hit a pylon” : Major Mouvement opens up about his father’s car accident in A Sunday in the countryside
After settling into the house and making the first introductions, the three guests took a seat in the barn to look back on their childhood. Michel Fugain was the first to speak, he spoke about his parents and his beginnings in music. The Olympic medalist, Manon Apithy-Brunet, looked back on her beginnings in sport but also her great shyness. Then, “the most famous physiotherapist in France”as introduced by Frédéric Lopez, also took part in the game of confidences. Major Mouvement was very moved when the host asked him to talk about his childhood. “I grew up in Seine-et-Marne, with my mother and my brother. From the start, things didn’t go as planned, my parents divorced when I was 2 years old, that’s pretty typical. A year later , my father had a big car accident. He was recently divorced, he was 32 years old, he was going to dinner with his friends and he missed a turn. His head hit a pylon and he suffered a head injury“, confessed Grégoire Gibault, very moved.
“I don’t talk about it publicly” : Major Mouvement confides in his childhood in A Sunday in the countryside
“It’s hard for me to talk about it because I didn’t expect to be overcome by emotion like that. I don’t talk about it publicly.”added Major Mouvement, very disturbed by his own confidences. He then explained his childhood punctuated by visits to his father, in a medical world that he found difficult to understand at his age. “There will be two years between the coma, the hospital, the rehabilitation center”he summarized. “My father told us: ‘I sometimes want to fuck myself up but I don’t do it thanks to you’. For him, it meant I love you more than anything“he confided to Frédéric Lopez. The physiotherapist also spoke of his stunted growth and the fact that he had difficulty finding his place, which will not have prevented him from succeeding in life as an adult.
