“It sped things up a little”: Julian Bugier faced with the sudden disappearance of his little brother, his life was turned upside down

Julian Bugier rarely opens up about his private life. This is how he once spoke of his childhood “dented“, with a father he had to take care of. Sunday November 17, 2024, the 43-year-old journalist repeated the exercise. Faced with Frédéric Lopez in A Sunday in the countrysidea program broadcast on France 2, Claire Fournier's husband spoke in more detail about certain aspects of his past. It was on this occasion that the star of the 1 p.m. television news spoke about the death of his younger brother, which occurred years ago.

Julian Bugier grew up in Loir-et-Cher, with a father who was a journalist in the regional press and a mother who was a second-hand antique dealer who had her own shop. A happy childhood which was finally turned upside down after a tragic event: the death of a family member. “My parents divorced when I was around 5 years old. I have a little brother who died“, revealed this father of two children, Lucien (13 years old) and Gabrielle (11 years old), both born from his love affair with the journalist Claire Fournier. And continued on the circumstances of the child's disappearance: “He wasn't stillborn, he died and that's what sealed the end of my parents' relationship. There were plenty of problems elsewhere but it speeded things up a bit. And so, I begin to navigate between these two homes, my mother who raises me alone for a while, my father with whom I spend time on weekends, my grandfather whom I adore.“

Julian Bugier disturbed by the divorce of his parents and the death of his little brother

He who had remained modest about this sad event then said more about the brutal separation of his parents. “Moments when parents divorce, when we find ourselves a little torn between father and mother, where there are arguments and tears a littlehe remembered. These moments were special and a little hard for me, with the death of this little brother who had just happened some time before.“At this complicated time, Julian Bugier was able to take refuge with his grandparents, who played an important role in its construction:”My grandfather and my grandmother took care of me quite a bit, they came to pick me up.“An unusual family life that made him the man he is today.