It is a sincere and unadorned testimony. This December 1st, Audrey Dana was present on the show A Sunday in the countryside (France 2). Facing Frédéric Lopez, the actress, recently seen in Zorro on Paramount+ alongside Jean Dujardin, spoke about different periods of his life. She notably looked back on her childhood and adolescence, which were not easy.
Audrey Dana: her “chaotic” childhood after her parents’ separation
When she was only nine years old, her parents made the decision to end their relationship. “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“, begins Audrey Dana. In financial difficulty, the mother of the actress then announced to her four children that she had found a solution: 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“, says the actress. Daily life will then become quite difficult to manage.”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“, she adds.
Audrey Dana recalls her adolescence: “There were all the drugs in the world under my roof”
Audrey Dana will then quickly find herself confronted with illicit substances. “I had all the drugs in the world under my roof. I have tasted 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 explains bluntly. The actress will recognize that there was a real “endangerment” for her at that time.
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