Malika Bentalha made her comeback on stage, four years after choosing to disappear from the radar. He is currently presenting his show called “New World” and has confided in certain sensitive subjects to our colleagues at Le Parisien. Among others? His painful depression which almost made him sink deeply…
Malik Bentalha has chosen to distance himself from the scene for a while in order to prioritize your physical but also mental health to get back in great shape. Four years later, he is back and is performing at La Cigale until December 31. He will then continue with the Adidas Arena and several Zéniths to find his audience who has waited so long. On the occasion of this comeback with his show entitled New World, the comedian has spoken on several occasions about the reasons which pushed him to distance himself. Already last June, when he was invited on the set of the show Daily on TMC, the thirty-year-old spoke transparently about his difficult period of depression.
“What’s destabilizing is being loved on Monday and inevitably being a little less loved afterwards, when you are subject to the pressure of numbers, when you release something everything is encrypted today […] It becomes a drug“, he admitted. Then detailed: “I went through difficult times, there were ups and downsfor the last four years and it is important for me to raise awareness especially among young people, the new generation, about these diseases.” Cash, Malik Bentalha even specified: “I spoke precisely! I went to see a psychologistobviously, it went very well and I would like to democratize this thing because it can save lives.”
“I let myself sink”
In a new interview given to our colleagues at Parisianthe artist once again evoked this period which could have made him sink… “It’s something pernicious, vicious, we’re in denial. Today, with social networks, the advent of Instagram, we are forbidden from going bad”he first regretted. Malik Bentalha then added that he was locking himself away “at all levels”. “I stayed at home looking at the cell phone, eating, letting myself sink in, gaining weight. And then there was this film that I really wanted to make. At the costume fittings, I started to lying about my size, I was sabotaging myself. he said in complete transparency.
Determined to open up on this sometimes taboo subject, he continued: “Three weeks before filming, I told the director that I couldn’t make the film, that I wouldn’t be able to watch myself on screen. It was no longer possible…”Aware of the critical stage he had reached, the actor decided to take control of himself. “Either I locked myself in my den, or I decided to get up to come back stronger”he remembered. And to tell: “It was in April 2023. I started my first sports session. After 10 minutes at 5 km/h, I hurt everywhere. But I continued step by step,” to the point of going from 122 to 70 kilos. On this subject, he also wanted to clarify things: “Without surgery, without anything. I exercise every morning, and I ate watermelon, a lot of watermelon (laughs)! My drug has always been sugar. I started eating salads”.
