Before her 23 years of marriage to Valérie, Patrice Laffont was a fickle husband and an absent father … and he was saying it

Host Patrice Laffont, known for having been in charge of cult programs such as Figures and letters or Fort Boyarddied a year ago a year ago, at home in Oppède, in Vaucluse, a heart attack and at the age of 84. Married for the first time to Catherine Laporte in 1966, he shared fifteen years of common life with her, before their separation. This relationship gave birth to two children, humorist and actress Axelle Laffont and director Fabrice Laffont.

In 2022, he confided in his regrets about their breakup, during his participation in the podcast Parents firstput online by Télé-Loisirs January 15 of that year. “It was I who in a way had a little ‘offset’. I was a bit fickle, I was not a great dad and I was not a great husband … ”, had he then admitted. And to insist: “I think I was not a terrible dad at that time.”

A subject he was able to approach with his children: “Not long ago, Axelle said to me, ‘You remember, you never helped me do my homework’ …” Patrice Laffont then assumed in this interview the fact that he did not “not at all interested in their studies“And that he has”not been strict at all“.

Patrice Laffont closer to her daughter Mathilde

Probably aware of his mistakes, the famous animator caught up with Mathilde, born in the 1990s in her history with Valérie, a woman with whom he was married for twenty-three years, from 1996 to 2011. Indeed, the presenter of Pyramids on France 2 did not fail to pamper her youngest and give him all his affection, especially once retired.

“When they were children (his elders, editor’s note), I was fully in the job and I have some regrets about them. I was more present for Mathilde only for them. They have the right to blame me. Axelle, for example, has always refused to do things with me … She did not want to professionally this parentage, that’s how! “, he had explained for Gala, Before Mathilde, who also participated in this interview, specifies that she has very good relations with her elders, even if they did not really grow up together because of their age difference.