“Life gave me more than I hoped“Explains the host who is told in several chapters. First, his childhood”not funny“, As he defined.”We were moving every two or three yearshe begins. I had no friends. Time to get used to it, we were going. Today, I don’t have so much. “ He admits not having “household“His little brother, Patrick, working in this documentary.”I didn’t really want to love her, actually“, He said before confessing to have set fire to the hut in which his brother was locked up when they played together. Result, Thierry Ardisson is sent to the priests so that he stops doing nonsense.”I was not obedient. […] I wanted the light to be on me, to take care of me. […] I am quite boastful and pretentious.“
The host has always thought he was deserving “much better“May the life his parents offered to him. As soon as he had the opportunity, he put his sails.”I dreamed of rhinestones, glitter and music“, he admits. Over time, this is what he found in Paris, first in advertising as a designer-editor (he admits having had the idea of the slogan “Lapeyre, there are not two” in “smoking a firecracker“In his bath), then on the small screen as an animator.
Seeing the archive images scrolling, Thierry Ardisson cannot hold back his tears. “”I cry like a cow. I’m the crying cow“, He confides with humor. A joke that made his wife laugh, who took the time of the documentary, the place of the interviewer.
Tentative de suicide, provocation
In this interview, there are no taboo subjects. Without tongue in wood, Thierry Ardisson evokes his suicide attempt (“I made a bath pour and opened my veins. I waited for the blood to empty in the bathtub“) or his addiction to drugs, and in particular heroin.
He returns to his provocative interviews’, his Borderline questions and regrets the time when “You could do the idiots“He says, tears in his eyes.”At the time, no one told me that I was going too farhe explains. There is nothing worse than judging the past with the eyes of the present. It’s called anachronism. Today, we could no longer redo this type of interview on TV. I also understand very well that there are things that we can no longer say because it hurts people.“
“A Dadker but very severe dad”
Her friends and former colleagues parade at the microphone of Audrey Crespo-Mara. Marie-France Brière, who discovered it, Laurent Baffie, her acolyte on the small screen, producer Catherine Barma, DJ Corti or her children, Gaston, Manon and Ninon, who lift the veil on the father that was Thierry Ardisson. “”When you have lunch, you have to be silent when speaking to him. What interests him is to tell what does him. It’s little interest in what you do. He is self -centered“Explains Manon, one of his daughters.
Her children remember a father “Very Decident but very severe“, Absent the week but present on weekends.”Since he was a bit boring, I think it would have gave me to see my father every day“, Says Gaston.
“When it’s wrong, you have to hold your teeth and continue”
The last part of the documentary is devoted to his fight against the disease and his way of seeing the future. “”I’m not afraid. The fear is that it gets ranging “he said. “”Since I have this disease, I have been enjoying it more to do simple things. […] When it goes wrong, you have to hold your teeth and continue.“
The documentary ends with the post-radiotherapy meeting of the animator with his doctor. If liver cancer seems to have stabilized, from nodules to the lungs have appeared. A news that Thierry Ardisson seems to take more positively than his wife … “We haven’t changed the world but we had fun“, can we read as a conclusion.
