This Thursday evening on C8, just after “Don’t touch my TV!” presented by Cyril Hanouna, Pascal Bataille and Laurent Fontaine receive on the set of “Only the truth that counts” a man with a complicated background with his daughter. Patrick says he is “very stressed” at the start of the show. In front of the hosts, he explains that he has only had very rare contact with his daughter for 15 years, following his separation from the latter’s mother in 2011. “I suffer enormously (…) there is no a day when I don’t think about her”, he confides with emotion.
The man retraces his story: depression, a last difficult meeting in 2012 with his daughter then aged 12, and years of absence. “I haven’t made contact with her, I know why she’s mad at me. I don’t expect her to open the curtain. I shouldn’t have acted like that, I should have taken care of ‘her, being present,’ he admits before collapsing. “I would like to say sorry to him.” But the reunion with Aurélie, now a nursing student, will take an unexpected and frosty turn.
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At the moment of the revelation, Aurélie is not surprised to discover her father. “I think I would have hoped it would be someone else but in the end, no,” she says coldly. Faced with Patrick’s excuses who say he “can no longer live without her”, the young woman remains impassive. “I find it almost beautiful to know how to say ‘forgive’ but it’s a pretty delicate situation. Why grant forgiveness if you can’t forgive? I will never be able to forgive my father,” she says.
The atmosphere becomes more tense when Aurélie makes chilling revelations about her father’s behavior. “I think he had a thousand and one opportunities to contact me, that’s what he actually did, to harass me with messages.” She continues by exposing the violence of the remarks made by her father: “He did anything, telling me that I was like my mother, that I was a prostitute, that I was not his daughter because My mother had always refused to do a paternity test.”
The mask finally falls when Patrick, disillusioned, radically changes his tone. His apparent empathy from the beginning gives way to obvious contempt. Aurélie then reveals that she had to block her father several times on social networks, and contradicts his words when he claims to have not contacted her for 4 years: “That’s false, I had ‘a happy birthday’ and a ‘Happy New Year’ this year and in between I had a ‘I love you, come back my love’ and then a ‘you’re just a bitch’.”
On X, Internet users are in shock at this sequence. “The guy harasses his daughter and calls her a big bitch and hopes that she will open the curtain, the joke all the same,” complains an Internet user. “This young girl is incredible, she says the right words. I wish her lots of happiness far from this father who is poison,” comments another. A viewer concludes: “A parent is not necessarily a parent worthy of the name for a child… She owes him nothing except life, which is hers and which she leads as she wants.”
