This Saturday, November 1, Jean-Paul Rouve was one of the
guests of What an era! on France 2. Come to present the play The Bourgeois Gentleman in which he plays Monsieur Jourdain, the actor indulged in an astonishing confidence about his birth. In front of Léa Salamé, he recounted how he almost never saw the light of day. The actor was at the heart of a
extremely complicated birth where his mother’s life and his own were in danger. A moving story that the actor, now 58 years old, shared with great emotion.
Used to making people laugh The Tuches,
Jean-Paul Rouve, father of an only child, this time
moved the public by evoking this dramatic episode. He explained that at his birth, in 1967, the doctors had warned his father that he would probably be
impossible to save both mother and child. In a medical context very different from that of today, his coming into the world was a real fight against death.
“It’s the mother or the child”: Jean-Paul Rouve recounts a dramatic birth at his birth
Facing Léa Salamé, Jean-Paul Rouve described the critical moments which preceded his birth. “The birth is not going well. They don’t arrive not to make me go out. I had to be misplaced and I had the coiled cord.” he explained. The actor remembers the words chilling addressed to his father by the doctors.“Listen, this is hot.
It’s the mother or the child. We think that
the child is no longer breathingso it is
cuit.” His father, distraught, then told the doctors to do everything to save his wife.
But the destin decided otherwise. A midwife listened carefully the belly of the young mother with a stéthoscope the old way. And she heard a weak heartbeat. It is thanks to his instinct and to his
determination that the future actor was finally able to come into the world alive. “It is she who saved my life.” said Jean-Paul Rouve with gratitude.
And “miraculous” who never forgot the one who saved him: they saw each other again
Jean-Paul Rouve also confided that he had the chance to meet again, a few years later, the midwife who allowed him to survive. “She was already elderlythis lady. I have it
revue when I was petitwhen we went to the clinique. She saw me and she said to me: ‘Ah, the miracle!‘” he remembers with emotion. A nickname that has accompanied him since childhood.
This rare testimony reveals another side of the actor: that of a man deeply grateful for life. Amidst laughter and confidences, Jean-Paul Rouve, dear friend of Isabelle Nanty, was able to move the audience of What an era!
