On the occasion of the release of
Saint-Clair
, his new album, Benjamin Biolay spoke without taboo about his relationship with alcohol.
The 49-year-old singer thus confided to
Marie Claire
, currently on newsstands, that "at 30, I was an alcoholic", while hinting at the "romantic" images that were hidden behind what was a real addiction.
"I was sure that I would be a cursed poet for life", and for that, if absinthe was no longer available over the counter, the young man he was then set his sights on vodka.
And he did not go with a dead hand, since he admitted to consuming "five liters a day" at the time.
This overconsumption was not even a source of pleasure and made him ugly.
“I was scared to death, actually.
It wasn't nice, I was getting fat, I wasn't even drunk,” he said.
Weaning
Benjamin Biolay felt that things escaped him.
He then took charge, without going through an institute, but the rehab worked.
Party “by the sea with the children”, the one who is also an actor “no longer touched a drop of alcohol” for six months.
He has not become abstinent for all that, but avoids strong alcohols.
It is in the studio that he still happens to be "drunk", the better to indulge in the creative process.
"Two or three drinks will make me go away, silence my fucking brain, my hardness with myself that prevents me from fucking a song when I'm on the verge of finding something," he confides.
Does the interpreter of
Your Heritage
have an
addict
profile ?
Anyway, he mostly replaces booze with podcasts now.
"I spend a lot of time on it.
This summer, I found some extraordinary ones on Flaubert, Mussolini and Pétain.
And there, I'm all the way, I listen, I don't even scratch, I'm fine, ”he exclaims.
Culture stronger than alcohol!
Culture
“I want to make people dance.
But for that, there have to be people…”, breathes Benjamin Biolay
Culture
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