On learning of the death of daughter Solenn, Patrick Poivre d’arvor has “wanted to throw himself under a car” – Gala

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While the new issuance of One day, a destiny” is dedicated this Sunday, at Patrick Poivre d’arvor, the journalist has spoken to the family on the death of his daughter Solenn, who died at the age of 19 years.

The pain of a father. This Sunday, October 8, France 2 broadcasts A day, one destiny : Patrick Poivre d’arvor, the novel of his life, a documentary entirely devoted to the former presenter and star of the JT of TF1. A return on with no concessions on the fate of a man who has endured the loss of his daughter Solenn, any 19-year-old. An episode painful for the whole family Poivre d’arvor, who relies with sincerity on this drama.

Patrick Poivre d’arvor, his wife Veronica, and his children Dorothy, arthur and Morgana came back to the loss of the young girl, suffering from anorexia nervosa. His mother remembers that Solenn had ” begun to lose weight “ during a stay in the United States. The teenager, 17-year-old was back in form, but had soon been caught in a ” downward spiral “. ” We told him that it had to stop but it was already too late,” tells the story of the wife of Patrick Poivre d’arvor.

“This life could never be as beautiful as what she wanted. There has been disillusion on disillusion, and it made him a bad dog… “ considers his little sister Morgana, who described it as ” very idealistic “. Together, all flowing around the teenager’s attempt to save against an evil unknown. His father recalls the moments spent with her, but it is already too late. The girl continues to lose weight until you reach the 27 kilos. ” We had not the right of the see, or of the call. This is crazy… “ testifies his brother Arnaud, who remembers the frequent hospital admissions of Solenn.

In the parking lot of the hospital, Patrick Poivre d’arvor is peering into the window of his daughter in the hope to catch a glimpse of a sign. ” He saw the small light turned on, and when she died, he said : “Finally, she sleeps, perhaps,” and he went” indicates Catherine, the sister of the writer. PPDA had put his writing talents to write Letters to the absent, of a collection, in the form of catharsis for those who had been highly criticized by some of these colleagues after the death of his daughter.

Therefore, Solenn is sinking in the disease eating away at her. On 27 January 1995, Patrick Poivre d’arvor does not find his daughter, then he had to go away for a weekend with her. His sister Morgane is a ” written word of the past’ in the room of the deceased. The presenter is also a message on his desk. They later learn that Solenn threw herself under a subway train.

“It is a party by saying that she didn’t like the life, but that she loved us a lot. I think she would be happy to know that somewhere, we understood his gesture even if it was a gesture terrifying “ entrust Patrick Poivre d’arvor. The pain is vivid, and the man even thinks to end his own life. ” On my scooter, I had one desire it was to throw me against a car in the opposite direction. I have not done it, I would have been able to do it… It takes a quarter of a second or a quarter of a reflection, telling me that I needed to first tell this news to his mom or his brothers and sisters,” admits the journalist who ensures that it is “the reproach all his life”.

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Patrick Poivre d’arvor

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