Emily Bécaud was “brutalized” mentally and physically in her childhood, because of the notoriety of her father, who died on December 18, 2001, 22 years ago. Gilbert Bécaud’s daughter recounted her trauma in the show “It Begins Today”…
Emily Bécaud, daughter of Gilbert Bécaud and his second wife, mannequin Cathryn Lee St. Johna suffered during childhood. The fame of his father was a heavy weight to bear for the young woman born in 1972. The singer died on December 18, 2001, just 22 years ago. But for her daughter, it seems like it was yesterday. Missing her father is still strong, although she suffered from his fame as a child. Emily Bécaud spoke openly about her difficult childhood on the show It starts today, in 2021.
Emily Bécaud, “brutalized mentally” and “physically”
Her school friends were far from kind to her. “School is not a favorable environment. At least at the time. It was not favorable ground for me, for dad’s notoriety“, she confided in 2021 in the show It starts today, facing Faustine Bollaert. “Harassment is a very nice word compared to what I experienced. I was mentally brutalized and in a time, physically“, she clarified.
Despite the complicated suffering for a young girl to manage, Emily Bécaud, now 51 years oldkept the harassment she was experiencing under wraps, for fear of worrying her parents: “I was all alone, and I was very good. I preferred to go home and quickly take refuge. My father didn’t really realize it because he wasn’t really there. And I think at the time, we didn’t really know how to deal with that kind of thing. I didn’t talk about it, I preserved my father and my mother. It was like that, I don’t know why“.
Emily Bécaud “just ‘the daughter of'”: those years when she worked with her father
However, this trauma did not prevent her from forming a strong and loving relationship with his father, with whom she quickly began working. “At first, I was just ‘the girl of’. I cleaned the stages, I passed the broomI was cleaning the piano… Very nice things to do. It was complicated. I was the nurse, the manager, the Swiss army knife of the group“, she recalled on the show.
The daughter of Gilbert Bécaud, who died in 2001 following a lung cancera ensuite pu sing a duet with him on numerous occasions, notably on the song The Girl at the Chalkboard. “We were in a recording studio and there was a casting call with three young girls. I arrived to do the model and I think he had rigged the casting. That he wanted to take my version (…) I think he had ideas in his head but he wasn’t very clear. That’s how I found myself at the Olympia trying to do the song in total panic“, she said.
2023-12-17 21:21:06
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