“Being an artist means knowing how to do lots of things that come from the artistic environment. » With philosophy, Camille Lellouche spoke at length about her life, her career, and many of her faults, Saturday in RTL’s “Unexpected Journal”. Straightforward, she confides her taste for melancholy songs, a thousand miles from her comedian repertoire. “That’s what touches me the most, I need to vibrate” in song, she says.
Becoming a singer, in addition to a comedian, is what allowed her to open up about the domestic violence she suffered. “What other way to talk about it than music? », she asks, before discussing the difficulty in getting out of toxic relationships. “People don’t understand that it’s a long process, it’s very easy to tell someone ‘leave them’.” Domestic violence, Camille Lellouche talks about it in her title Does not insist. “I was too fragile to say that it was me who happened” during the promotion of the title, she says, until the day she spoke in the show “Sept à Eight”: “I have been freed from another weight.”
“We must not be in denial” about alcoholism
Today, the artist says she is “proud to have succeeded in making a song in which a lot of women can identify”, and remembers, among the “300 to 400 messages per day”, the story of a young woman who turned around when she heard the song as she went to see the man who was beating her. “For life, we never recover from that, but I am much more peaceful and serene,” she confides on the air.
The one who defines herself as “quite shy and modest” appreciates the absence of “filter” in music, after years of hiding behind “a character on stage” as a comedian, with “her own rhythm and melody” . But she will also look even deeper with a third facet of her profession, that of an actress. “We shouldn’t go into her personal resources”, into her “flaws”, to embody a character, but it’s stronger than her.
At the end of the show, Camille Lellouche also mentions another flaw, a moment where she “was damaged”: alcoholism. Struggling to launch her career as an artist, the one who was then working in the restaurant business to make ends meet sank without seeming to do so. “From the moment you work, you go out, you drink, and you do that 7/7, you are an alcoholic, you don’t have to be in denial,” she says, bluntly. “We just have to admit it, but in France we have a problem with that. »