Rather discreet about his private life, the actor Elie Semoun delivered rare confidences about his son Antoine, now an adult, suffering from autistic disorders.
A very worried dad. In more than thirty years of career, Elie Semoun knew how to publicize almost all the artistic facets of his personality. We have known him as a comedian, of course, but also a singer with the publication of three albums, directors – we owe him the Ducobu saga, for example – and more recently an author, with the publication of his book Count up to you. But the actor is much more discreet when it comes to discussing his private life. Asked in the columns of Here isthis week, he makes a slight exception to the rule and notably mentions his son.
“Me, I was hard on him for a long time“
Élie Semoun actually became the father of his only child named Antoine, in 1995. He is the fruit of his marriage to Annie Florence Jeannesson, from whom he divorced in 2002. “He is the pride of my life. And knowing it’s finally in tune with itself is a huge relief for me.“, assures the actor about the young man, who now flourishes as a painter under the pseudonym of Andy Santori. But the arrival in the world of the little boy was not easy: “Autistic Asperger, born prematurely, he had to fight a lot“, says Elie Semoun, before revealing that he has not always behaved appropriately with his son: “Me, I was hard on him for a long time, in denial of his difference. I was exasperated by his immobility, I believe that I was especially very worried for him and that I did not know how to express it otherwise“, he revealed. A relationship that seems much more peaceful today. The 59-year-old dad even claims to be the “best agent“, for his son, to whom he “wish a good future“.
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Elie Semoun: his complicated love life
With the release of his book, Elie Semoun also mentioned his recent breakup with a woman whose life he shared for a while, but who left him. “It’s still very fresh because I got dumped a year ago“he explains before adding: “But hey, I’m not the only one inspired by a breakup. Brel wrote: Do not leave me and she didn’t come back either“, he concluded with humor.
