“I took ten years to get out of it”: Pierre Arditi talks about his addiction which made him lose very big …

Solène Delinger 1:10 p.m., December 21, 2022, modified at 1:10 p.m., December 21, 2022

Pierre Arditi is back at the cinema with the film

in theaters since December 7th.

Invited to the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk on Europe 1 to talk about the feature film in which he embodies a talented conductor, the 78-year-old actor confided without filter on an addiction which made him "lose his mind" and also a lot of money...

“My narcissism saved me because I was losing myself”

"At one time, I was on fire. I was a real player, that is to say, I was going to play in circles and in casinos", he recalls facing Sonia Mabrouk.

The actor finally got away with it thanks to one of his character traits.

"One day my narcissism saved me because I was losing myself. I said to myself, 'It may take me ten years to pay back what I owe' after having stupidly lost it and having lost the reason. I actually took ten years to get out of it", he underlines.

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“I started to invent bogus excuses not to go to work anymore”

Pierre Arditi had already confided in his addiction to gambling during an interview granted to

in 2019. He explained that he let himself be drawn into an infernal gear because of his luck during the first games.

"I started to invent bogus excuses to stop going to work and go back to play hoping to get back to it. I invented things to borrow, I imitated signatures", he had revealed.

It was one episode in particular that convinced him to quit acting. 

"One evening, I lost the money for the holidays. My wife (Evelyne Bouix) and my son (Frédéric, born from his previous relationship with the late actress Florence Giorgetti, editor's note) were waiting for me to leave that morning. leaving the circle, I had fifty bullets left [...] Between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m., I made phone calls to recover this money. I lied one last time, "he explained in

 "Disfigured, defeated, crumbling. I said to myself my friend, there are two schools: 'you shoot yourself, or you stop everything and you pay back'. I didn't like my face in the reflection of the mirror" , had then underlined the one who has now drawn a definitive line on his terrible addiction …