Solène Delinger 2 p.m., February 18, 2023

In an exclusive interview given to our colleagues from “Here” Friday, February 17, 2023, Elie Semoun confided in his relationship with his only son Antoine, suffering from Asperger autism.

A disorder that the comedian had a hard time accepting and which pushed him to be “hard” with his boy, now 27 years old. 

Shocking secrets.

In an interview with the magazine

Here is

Friday February 17, 2023, Elie Semoun, currently at the theater with his play

Suite Royale,

confided in his special relationship with his son Antoine.

Born of his past union with his ex-wife Annie Florence Jeannesson, the young man has Asperger's autism.

As his father reveals in the columns of

Here, 

Antoine "had to fight a lot". 

“I was especially very worried about him”

"Me, I was hard on him for a long time, in denial of his difference", recognizes Elie Semoun, who was "exasperated by the immobility" of his son.

The 58-year-old comedian has retrospectively understood why he behaved in this way with Antoine.

"I think I was especially very worried about him and that I did not know how to express it otherwise," he analyzes. 

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This is the first time that Elie Semoun has publicly mentioned his son's autistic disorder.

The comedian recently made a name for himself with the publication of his very first novel,

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a moving and poetic account of his love story, then of his breakup with his companion Héloïse.

Writing this book was therapeutic for Elie Semoun, whose separation from the young woman was particularly painful.

The comedian was indeed still very much in love with her when she left him.

"Héloïse read the book, she thought it was magnificent. She complimented me, telling me that no man could ever give her such a beautiful proof of love. But that didn't make her come back. When we love more, we love more",

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on Europe 1, December 5, 2022. Elie Semoun had also made it known that he wanted to find love again.

A call that certainly did not go unnoticed...