At the head of a tribe of four children, Gérard Darmon recounted the joys of fatherhood and his special relationship with Léna, his daughter, just 7 years old.
On the stages of the Théâtre des Nouveautés, Gérard Darmon has been playing Philippe for several weeks, a lover spurned by his mistress. Invited to present the play on the set of the Canal+ show “En Aparté”, he was questioned by journalist Nathalie Lévy about his career, his private life and more particularly his fatherhood.
Happy father of four children, Gérard Darmon welcomed the youngest in 2017. Born from his union with Christine (his wife since 2014, twenty-five years his junior), Léna celebrated her seventh birthday this year. Perfectly aware of their large age gap, the actor has no problem expressing himself on this subject: “I was a very young dad at 20 and I am also a very old dad since I had my daughter Léna at 68 years old. »
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Throughout his life, Gérard Darmon never stayed away from diapers and bottles. In 1968, at just 20 years old, he became a father for the first time with his former wife Nicole Recoules. Together, they raised Virginie, who is now 56 years old and follows in her father's footsteps in the cinema. The latter in turn became a mother in 1998.
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Father but also grandfather
In 1994, Gérard Darmon found his way back to sleepless nights and little bibs with his partner Mathilda May. The Darmon clan grew with the birth of Sarah, then three years later of Jules.
The two younger children are very close in age to their nephew Tom, the son of their big sister Virginie. It is in this generation gap that little Léna was added, in 2017. Last born to Gérard Darmon and his wife Christine.
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At 76, the actor considers himself a “sugar daddy with limits from time to time, otherwise it’s nonsense. I am rather tolerant, I listen and I want her to have confidence in me, to open up, talk to me and to know that she can tell me anything. »
Faced with their large age difference, it is not uncommon for some people to misunderstand their relationship, particularly at school when the father accompanies the little girl. To this, Gérard Darmon says he has no difficulty in rectifying and saying that Léna is not his granddaughter but indeed his daughter.
