Clara Luciani opens up about her role as a mother in “Lesencontres du Papotin”

The show broadcast on France 2 and launched by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakkache, has begun its second season. The principle is simple: confront, without filter, the young people with autism spectrum disorders who make up the newspaper “Le Papotin”. After Emmanuel Macron, Angèle, Thomas Pesquet and Virginie Efira, and more recently Jonathan Cohen, Juliette Armanet, it is the turn of the singer Clara Luciani to take part in the question/answer game of non-professional journalists.

In addition to soon releasing his latest album entitled My Sang and dedicated in part to her family which recently grew with the birth of her son, the young woman accepted a new role on television by becoming the godmother of the new promotion of the “Star Academy”. And all her news is scrutinized by the interviewers, starting with her role as a singer but also her appearance.

“It’s scary”

“I try to forget as much as possible about my physique and what I look like because otherwise it weighs me down too much. And then I'm not comfortable with myself so I try to keep in mind that I'm a singer and therefore no one really cares what I look like. That I'm here to sing, she confided before specifying, If I had wanted people to judge my physique, perhaps I would have been a model and even then.”

It is also an opportunity for the 32-year-old musician to discuss, beyond her professional career, her private and family life. In particular her role as a mother, which she has discovered over the past few months. “It’s a lot of things but it’s scary”she replied to one of the journalists who asked her what this new situation had changed in her. She also shared what François Hardy had confided to her by email before dying: “being a mother means worrying all your life”.

“It’s a love so great, so strong that we have a form of fear that accompanies us daily. […] It's taking up a lot of space in my head right now. And that's why it's difficult but I'm taking it as a bet: to manage to be on stage, to make music with the little mental space I have left at the moment. It’s going to be an achievement.”