Isabelle Adjani tells her difficult childhood

Confidences about his childhood. In the July 18 issue of Inrocks,
Isabelle Adjani tells of her difficult youth. "It was very hard," admits Isabelle Adjani

His father, Mohammed Chérif Adjani, engaged at the age of sixteen in the French army during the Second World War, was only 18 when he met his mother, Emma Schweinberger, 25, in Germany. The young Frenchman of Kabyle origin is in Germany as part of his military service and decides to take Emma to France with him.

"She was taken away, almost abducted"

"My mother did not of profession. She was taken away, almost abducted, when she was 25, by my father who was 18. They were very beautiful. She already had two small children. He convinced her to follow him, was threatened to achieve his ends … She was a hostage, a hostage who could not forgive her kidnapper. "

Isabelle Adjani does not have good relations with his father. "Throughout my childhood and adolescence, he asked me to lower my eyes to men, not to point out me, not to show how I felt," says the actress. And to add: "So, this job that I found myself doing was an incredible break-in.

"She had no special ambition for me"

Relationships with her mother are not simple either. "She had no special ambition for me. By rivalry in the feminine. She had not succeeded in her life as a woman, and she just did not have to find out that I would succeed with mine. My femininity has been somewhat mistreated, continues Isabelle Adjani. She took me out of my gym clbad, after having withdrawn me from my dance clbad … Then music, "says the actress.

Her only comfort? Culture. "I quickly realized that I was in danger. I felt that I was going to flee through theater, literature. And I continued to believe that one had to dream to survive. "