Solène Delinger 4:18 p.m., January 9, 2023, modified at 4:18 p.m., January 9, 2023
Joyce Jonathan was Frédéric Lopez's guest on Sunday January 8 in the program "Un dimanche à la campagne".
The singer confided in her childhood without filter, revealing that she had pretended to be a boy for a long time to "please" her mother.
As a little girl, Joyce Jonathan called herself "Michael".
Joyce Jonathan surprised many viewers on Sunday January 8, during her appearance on the program
Un dimanche à la campagne
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Facing Frédéric Lopez, the 33-year-old singer has indeed revealed that she pretended to be a boy during her childhood.
It was when she understood, in first grade, that her mother would have preferred to have a boy that little Joyce began to turn into a boy.
Joyce Jonathan behaved "in scum mode"
"I have always been prone to guilt. I have two older sisters and I understood through discussions that my mother would have liked to have a boy as my third child, I turned into a boy for years", confides Joyce Jonathan.
The interpreter of "It will go" was then called "Michael" and behaved "in scum mode".
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"In class, I went to the boys' side"
"I was unbearable in the way I dressed, I only wanted to wear jeans, I wanted to have short hair, and when I arrived in class I went to the boys' side", continues the singer, whose behavior exasperated the mistress.
"I had a substantial number of words in my correspondence book", recalls Joyce Jonathan.
It was after a "solemn" discussion with her mother that the little girl became "Joyce" again.
"I don't remember very well, but I went to get some barrettes and I asked him to put them on for me," says Joyce Jonathan, with emotion.
A beautiful story that she will not fail to tell her own granddaughter Ghjulia.