Solène Delinger 2 p.m., October 30, 2022

Frédéric Lopez is the guest of Europe 1 on Sunday in the program "There is not just one life in life", on the occasion of the broadcast of his new program "A Sunday in the countryside", on France 2. At the microphone of Isabelle Morizet, the 55-year-old journalist explains that he "forgave" his father despite everything he did to him during his childhood. 

Frédéric Lopez is back on television.

Four years after leaving the presentation of

 Rendez-vous in unknown land

, the journalist is at the head of a new program,

A Sunday in the countryside

, broadcast on France 2, on the old niche of Michel Drucker. 

“I had the face of constraint”

Invited on this occasion on Europe 1 in the program "There is not only one life in life", Frédéric Lopez confided in Isabelle Morizet on his difficult childhood.

As a child, the journalist suffered abuse and violence from his father, who had never wanted to have a son.

"I was not a wanted child. My mother gave birth to me at 16 in the greatest secrecy. My father went back to Morocco before returning when I was two years old to fulfill his duty. J 'had the face of constraint,' he had already told in 2016 in the columns of the magazine

Nous Deux.

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"I forgave when I discovered that what he had experienced in his childhood was hard"

"I grew up in fear", he assures Sunday against Isabelle Morizet on Europe 1. "It has consequences for an entire life".

Beaten by his father, Frédéric Lopez lived a terrible childhood, a childhood that he "would not wish on anyone".

But, the host found the strength to forgive his executioner.

“My father today is 80 years old and I could say that he is one of the most attentive people, as far as I am concerned. It is quite incredible and it was unimaginable for me to imagine that because indeed in childhood, he was someone who was very hard”, he confides in

There is not only one life in life.

"What is disturbing is that I have changed my outlook," he continues.

"I forgave, as they say, when I discovered that what he had experienced in his childhood. And I realized that what he had experienced was much harder than what I had experienced. , me". 

It is for this reason that Frédéric Lopez claims to have gone from “anger” to “empathy” with his father.