The 26-year-old singer looks back on her depressive episodes, in order to free speech on a still taboo subject.
Louane breaks the taboo of depression. While his fourth album has just been released, Feelingsthe 26-year-old singer confides in a few dark episodes of her life at the microphone of the “InPower” podcast, hosted by influencer Louise Aubery.
The one who grew up in the spotlight (The Voice at 16, first big role in the cinema at 17, first album at 19) recounts in particular the gap between this meteoric rise and what was happening behind the scenes:
“In people’s eyes, I had everything to be happy. I was very successful, everything I wanted to do was going pretty well, but basically my mental health made it a bit chaotic .”
“It was paradoxical, because I felt like I couldn’t complain since everything I had was exceptional (…) but from a personal point of view, outside of my work and my what I was doing, I wasn’t doing well.”
“I blew a fuse”
The interpreter of Give me your heart evokes the steamroller of notoriety, and its harmful effects: “Obviously, at some point, you wonder who you are. In this environment, even if you have the right people around you, you remain matrixed. Of course, I freaked out.” And to list: “Post-tour depression, anxiety attacks, social anxiety… I haven’t left my house anymore.”
The anguish reached its climax in 2018, after his second tour: “It was my shrink who told me to stop, at the time. I was supposed to go straight to my third album and she m ‘said: ‘You go see your management and you tell them that I asked that you stop’. (…) I still had a good little depression.”
The young woman then began a professional break: “Sadness had taken possession of my body. I had several phases of sadness and depression in my life, and 2018 is one of them.”
“Sadness or pain do not necessarily prevent you from moving forward”
Where did such discomfort come from? “A lot of things, it’s hard to put your finger on a single thing,” she explains, before exposing: “When you’re an artist, especially when you’re a woman, you’re always asked to to be the most perfect version of you that exists. From my 17 to my 20 years, when I arrived on TV, I was always well presented, I always knew what to talk about.”
“I wanted people to like me so I did everything for that, and all I showed of myself was perfect stuff. Except it’s not real life.”
Today a mother, Louane believes she has learned lessons from these episodes: “I don’t think that sadness or pain necessarily prevent you from moving forward, it’s not necessarily a brake. It can help you move forward. but in a different way (…) the sadness, in life, really made me grow and accept a lot of things.”
