"I’m going to ask you to leave, sir!" : The complex fusion of Vincent Lagaf and his biological mother

Vincent Lagaf publishes his autobiography my name was Frank (XO Editions). A title that refers to the painful past of Bigdil’s host. Indeed, his stepparents, whose name was Franck at birth, decided to change his name to Vincent”It’s complicated when you’ve been called Franck for three years and have to answer Vincent’s first name overnight. You are stripping away a little of your identity.” He had entrusted TV to our colleagues for 2 weeks. Vincent Lagaf, who was invited to France Inter’s antenna, took this opportunity to return to his adopted home as well as to meet with his biological mother. “I called him. It’s rare to find it this easily, but I ran into a retired prosecutor in Rouen who told me ‘I knew you were coming (…) and secretly gave me the address of my biological mother Lucienne. “ remembers their interpreter Sink Bo.

But when Vincent Lagaf appears on Lucienne, it’s a disappointment.”I came to the door, he was coming out of his house and he said to me, ‘yes, I know who you are, I will ask you to leave, sir!’ said. Wait I said I made 1000 terminals to see you, ‘I don’t want to know sir you are leaving! he remembers. The first encounter that upset Vincent: “there you are left for the second time“he explains by saying he burst into tears”Here I am dying! Twice in a row, same person“.

But Vincent persists, finds Lucienne’s phone number and decides to call her immediately: “You just kicked me out. Before I hang up, I wanted to tell you that my name was Franck and I was born on October 30, 1959. He explains that Vincent was visibly impressed. Eventually, Lucienne will agree to meet her biological son.I need to talk to you ‘ he will confess at the end of the line. This will be followed by a long and frank conversation of 6 hours. In his column for Télé 7 Jours, Vincent Lagaf ‘confessed to us: ” He was proud of me, but he had a really shitty life. “.

Thierry-Claude