She spent two days in the countryside in good company. This Sunday, December 1st, Audrey Dana was one of the guests ofA Sunday in the countrysidebroadcast on France 2 and presented by Frédéric Lopez. Alongside Louis Chedid and Baptiste Lecaplain, the actress and director lifted the veil on her private life, starting with her childhood. In the traditional barn sequence, the filmmaker said she had “a very colorful dad, a man of letters, journalist and card player” and an American mother at the head of a small publishing house of tourist guides. But when she was only 9 years old, the young girl saw her parents move away.. “They are not at home very often, they argue a lot and they separate. I have a very absent father and a mother who lost her mother and it was almost as if life stopped for her at that moment. She stops working“, she testifies.
“I have tasted all the drugs in the world very sparingly“: Audrey Dana talks about her childhood in A Sunday in the countryside
While she lacks money, Audrey Dana's mother wants to become a childminder. “She welcomed one child, then two, then three, then four, then twelve… There were more than fifty who passed through the house during my adolescence. Children broken, raped, beaten“, reports the actress. She then speaks about the atmosphere, judged by herself of “chaotic“later in the show, within the house.”On weekends, there were these twelve kids, plus the supervisors who needed to be supervised themselves. All these people have friends, so on the weekend, all the friends come so it’s parties of 100 people. I had all the drugs in the world under my roof. I have tried all the drugs in the world very sparingly. At 12 I had my first joint, at 14 I took my first acid with my mother and sister debating how much acid I could take“, she remembers.
A Sunday in the countryside : Audrey Dana testifies about her parents in front of Frédéric Lopez on France 2
Frédéric Lopez then wants to know if we can use the term endangerment? “Yes, completely“, she replies. But how did she get over all that? “I had a father who was very absent but full of affection. I couldn't blame him because if I blamed him, what was left for me? And my mother, yes, I was very, very angry. I didn't understand how she managed this house. Even the teenagers from the DDASS, it was rubbish, there was no framework“, confides Audrey Dana. Later, the teenager needed to run away to Orléans to revise her baccalaureate. “My mother didn't realize I was gone“, she concludes with a burst of laughter.
