“I have to let him grow”: Julie de Bona makes rare confidences about her son, her life as a mother and her discreet companion

The year 2025 is off to a great start for Julie de Bona, who has already had a dream year in 2024. Known for her numerous roles on French television, the 44-year-old actress had the honor of playing in one of the biggest hits of the year in cinema, namely Le Comte de Monte Cristo. Alongside Pierre Niney, Laurent Lafitte and Anaïs Demoustier, she played the role of Victoria, Baroness de Danglars. This Monday, January 6 on TF1, a completely different character awaits viewers since the Parisian plays the main role in the miniseries Erica.

In this Franco-Belgian production, Julie de Bona plays the role of a novelist who finds herself at the heart of a police investigation in which she opposite Grégory Fitoussi and Gérémy Crédeville. On December 30, the actress was kind enough to answer questions from TV Star and our colleagues particularly returned to the success of the Comte de Monte Cristoasking the woman who owns an apartment with vintage decor located in a cosmopolitan district of Paris, if her son was able to see the film produced by Dimitri Rassam. “No, it’s too small. He is 6 years old and he is afraid of everythingeven cartoons. He is very sensitive. But he comes regularly to my shoots, his dad sometimes accompanies him. He knows my job but for him, it’s a job like any other”explains the actress.

Julie de Bona, very protective mother for her son

Very discreet about her private life, Julie de Bona announced the birth of her son on her Instagram account on August 13, 2018, without indicating the identity of the father. However, for TV Starthe one who pulled out all the stops in a backless dress alongside Anaïs Demoustier at the Cannes Film Festival this year, confides in the kind of mother she is for her child. “Worried, playful, protective… a little too much. I have to let him grow so that he has confidence in himself. It’s a tension sometimes because I want to preserve it”adds the actress.

Last year, Julie de Bona had already confided in Leisure TV on this choice that she made for the good of her family in connection with one of her roles on television. A true mother hen, the actress is visibly very close to her son, whom she perhaps broods a little too much, as she admits.