It's time for secrets for Malik Bentalha. Although he suffered two commercial failures with the broadcast two years ago of his previous show on TF1 and his first film Jack Mimoun and the Secrets of Val Verde, here he is back on stage. Until December 31, the person concerned will shine at La Cigale, in Paris to present his new show entitled New World. With our colleagues from Parisian this Friday, December 27, 2024, the famous actor bounced back on his news.
Malik Bentalha, who has come a long way, notably addressed certain aspects of his private life. Impossible for him to ignore his impressive physical transformation. To remember that the star went from “122 to 70 kilos”. and he said, with humor, his method for losing weight: “No operation, no nothing. I exercise every morning, and I ate watermelon, a lot of watermelon (laughs)! My drug has always been sugar. I started eating salads.“Then he adds with more seriousness: “If someone had told me five years ago that I would go back on stage and talk about the separation of my parents, about my depression, about my love story that ended, about the fact that I am going to see a psychologist… I would have told you: Never in my life! Before I didn't even say that I lived in Paris!“
Malik Bentalha opens up like he rarely does
Like a phoenix reborn from its ashes, now Malik Bentalha is a new man. In front of his audience, the 35-year-old artist also wanted to bare himself, not hesitating to talk about the deep depression he recently went through. “It's something pernicious, vicious, we're in denial“, he admitted. “With social networks, we are forbidden from going bad. I locked myself away at every level, I stayed at home looking at the cell phone, eating, I let myself sink“.
But one thing leads to another, Malik Bentalha also had something that clicked: “There was this film that I really wanted to shoot. At costume fittings, I started lying about my size. I was sabotaging myself. At three weeks, I told the director that I couldn't make the film, that I wouldn't be able to watch myself on screen. It was no longer possible“. In the midst of turmoil, the latter then held on to move forward: “Either I locked myself in my den, or I decided to get up to come back stronger. It was in April 2023, I started my first sports session. after ten minutes at 5km/h I was hurting everywhere. But I continued step by step“. A true strength of character that will inspire more than one!
