Emily Bécaud was mentally and physically “brutalized” during her childhood due to the fame of her father, who died 22 years ago on December 18, 2001. Gilbert Bécaud's daughter told about her trauma on the program “It Begins Today”…
Emily Becaud, Daughter of Gilbert Bécaud and his second wife, Model Cathryn Lee St. Johnhas suffered in childhood. There Glory of his father was a heavy burden for the young woman born in 1972. The singer died on December 18, 2001, just 22 years ago. But for her daughter, it seems like it was yesterday. Missing her father is still strong, even though she suffered from his fame as a child. Emily Bécaud spoke openly about her difficult childhood on the Ça Commence Today program in 2021.
Emily Bécaud, “mentally” and “physically brutalized”
Her school friends were anything but friendly to her. “School is not a conducive environment. At least back then. “It was not a favorable ground for me, for my father’s reputation,” she admitted in 2021 on the Ça Commence Today show alongside Faustine Bollaert. “Harassment, that’s a very nice word compared to what I experienced.” I was mentally brutalized and at a time, physically“, she clarified.
Despite the complicated suffering that a young girl has to deal with, Emily Bécaud, now 51 years oldShe kept the harassment she experienced secret for fear of worrying her parents: “I was completely alone, and I was doing very well. I preferred to go home and quickly seek refuge. My father wasn't really aware of it because he wasn't really there. And I don't think we really knew how to deal with something like that back then. I didn't talk about it, I preserved my father and mother. It was like, I don’t know why.”
Emily Bécaud “simply 'the daughter'”: those years in which she worked with her father
However, this trauma did not stop them from building a strong and loving relationship with his father, with whom she quickly began working. “At first I was just 'that girl'. I cleaned the stages, I passed the broomI cleaned the piano… Very nice things to do. It was complicated. I was the nurse, the manager, the Group Swiss Army Knife” she recalled on the show.
The daughter of Gilbert Bécaud, who died of lung cancer in 2001, then succeeded sing along with a duet him on numerous occasions, particularly the song The girl at the blackboard. “We were in a recording studio and there was a casting with three young girls. I came to do the modeling and I think he rigged the casting. That he wanted to adopt my version (…) I think he had ideas in his head, but he wasn't entirely clear. That's what I tried to do at the Olympics singing the song in complete panic“, She said.