“His stress was pretty bad for me when he got home.”
The comedian Rachid Badouri was located in Two Men in Gold and Rosaliea moment where he talked about his relationship with his father.
Remember that his father Mohamed is now a well-known person in Quebec as he stars in many of his son’s video clips.
An interview in which Rachid notably revealed that their relationship was not always good and that a tragic event allowed them to become closer.
“Did you have a very difficult relationship with your father?” asks him Patrick Lagace.
“Yes. My father wasn’t around much because he obviously worked like crazy. It’s the journey of immigrants who arrive and work six jobs. My father worked in workshops and so on, after which he had his own garage. His stress, it didn’t matter to me that he was attacked when he came home (…) He had the syndrome… I don’t know if you saw the Louis Morissette film, a very good film by Weg, Guide to the perfect family“It was a bit like my father (…) there was a lot of tension between him and me,” admits Rachid Badouri.
A tension that faded as life tested it.
“That tension subsided and calmed down when my mother died. While she was also sick. His cancer lasted 10 years. My father, today we don’t hang up, we don’t say goodbye without saying “I love you” but from the bottom of our hearts. Because the first “I love you” (…) was like an onomatopoeia and he left. There I kiss his hand, I kiss his forehead, we hug and he hugs me all the time too. He’s proud of me,” the veteran comedian adds tenderly and gratefully.
However, Rachid added that despite the fact that they often came into conflict, he never held a grudge against his father.
“I never hated my father because through it all I could feel the love he had for me. It wasn’t his fault, he wasn’t a violent man, he wasn’t a man who abused me or anything like that. “He was a man who suffered so much from stress (…) He would have given his kidneys for me, he didn’t abandon me,” concludes Rachid.
A moving moment of vulnerability!