Expected this Sunday evening on the show Seven to Eight to talk about his book “En homme libre”, Gabriel Attal talks about his relationship with his father, the latter’s addictions and his tragic death, at only 66 years old.
He is not the first to comply with the exercise. On April 23, Gabriel Attal’s autobiography will be released in bookstores. Among the great moments of his life that he recounts in the work, there is that of the death of his father, Yves, struck down by illness when he was only 66 years old. In an article from Pointwhich shares several passages from the book, we discover the confidences of the former Prime Minister concerning the one he lost young, and whom he describes as a “quite exceptional personality”, who worked as a journalist, then a lawyer, and, passionate about cinema, he wanted to produce films.
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Excerpts from a father addicted to gambling, then drugs
One of the things he remembers from his father is his tragic addictions. In an extract from his book, he explains: “I didn’t realize it then, but for a long time, he lived like a tightrope walker, constantly putting himself in danger.” Gabriel Attal relates that his father had a voracious passion for poker and could spend entire evenings playing without stopping. He remembers my mother’s worry, when he was a child, who watched him nights. “This passion put us in danger: a few years after my parents’ divorce, I remember seeing, at 12 or 13 years old, hounds ringing our house on behalf of loan sharks who had lent money to my father in gambling.”
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This episode would have created an “electric shock” for his father, who decided to be banned from games subsequently, to protect himself and his family.
Unfortunately, his father also fell into a tragic addiction, drugs. “When you are a child, you don’t realize what your father does. And with my sisters, we were too young to detect his strange, sometimes irrational behavior, including in our presence. Too young also to really understand when my mother regularly told us that he had to go “to rest for a while”, in reality going through detoxification treatments”, he confides in front of the cameras of Sept à Huit.
Gabriel Attal remembers mornings when he and his three sisters were unable to wake up their father, still under the influence of substances. It was also these addictions that pushed his mother to leave and file for divorce.
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A devastating cancer
Gabriel Attal was only 26 years old when his father died of illness in the fall of 2015. Shortly before, aware that his time was running out, he finally dared to speak about his homosexuality and his partner Stéphane (Stéphane Séjourné, editor’s note). “My father had to be on his deathbed for me to finally dare to tell the truth. I had been in a relationship with Stéphane for several months already, and a sort of unsaid attitude had taken hold in my family.”
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Taking a deep breath, he tells his father that he has fallen in love with a boy. “Breathless, I watched his reaction in his eyes. I saw only love. He turned to me, smiled and said: ‘Finally, you’re talking to me about it! I hope to be out this weekend so that you can introduce him to me and that we can share a chicken with him at home on Sunday’. This meal never took place. My father never met Stéphane. He fell asleep shortly after this exchange and did not wake up again until he died the next day.”
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