Patrick Dupond in love with the woman asserts, “in his case, homosexuality has been an error” – Gala

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Patrick Dupond, the legendary dancer French, is entrusted in an interview given to Paris Match, how his love life when he was a star of the ballets was ” a parody of love “. Confidences made while he now lives a happiness without task with Leïla Da Rocha, the one who made him discover the love.

January 2000, the life of Patrick Dupond switches. At 41 years old, the former star dancer, the “genius “as was called the star of the Russian Rudolf Nureyev, loses consciousness at the wheel of his car on the highway, between Le Havre and Paris :” I was coming back from the island of Re, where I had spent fifteen days in démazouter beaches after the ecological disaster of theErika. After you have saved three thousand birds, they are my wings that were broken , “he explained in 2014 in the show a Whole story on France 2. Skull, broken vertebrae and neck also in pieces, partial paralysis, 134 fractures in all…the diagnosis of the medical profession is severe : “Walking can be, to dance no more ! “to him, he said. It is wrong to know the star adored by Maurice Béjart who seven months later to come back up on stage : “Immediately with what I had left of my face, I said : ‘no’. This is the first word that I uttered. “

A renaissance that the artist owed to his strength of character but also to the love, personified by Leïla Da Rocha, a former basketball player professional involved in the sacred dance of the orient to the result of an injury. “She ran a dance school, to Soissons, to which it wished to meet with me. Because she was able to find the words, I accepted an appointment. The interview would last thirty minutes. At 3 o’clock in the morning, and we couldn’t leave. She told me that I dance for the first time at the age of 9 years. It was at Sisteron, in “The sleeping beauty”. “, has entrusted the dancer 58-year-old in an interview to our colleagues from Paris Match.

A maintenance open-heart, during which Patrick Dupond has recovered the thread of his story, and nailed to the pillory the “guy “he was before,” the self-centered ” in the company of the greatest choreographers was ” fourteen times around the planet “. It is as well as blaming himself for having lived in ” the lie, a parody of love , “the dancer explained that” homosexuality was a mistake ” : “It is important to understand that a life of a dancer-star international is incompatible with a married life, because it is impossible to be available to the other. Seventeen thousand people you cheered on stage but you don’t have someone with whom to share this time. When I went back home, I was happy to see my animals, but I was alone. Or only two, which is the same. “concluded the former dancer now settled in Bordeaux with his dear and tender where together they run a school intended to prepare young dancers who wish to integrate ballet companies around the world.

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