Jane Birkin “vulnerable, in need”? Rare confidences of his grandson Ben Attal on his health and their relationship

His childhood was not everyone’s: raised by famous parents, Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg, Ben Attal was born into a clan of artists, among whom he finally managed to make a name for himself. place. But his family relationships were not always obvious, especially with his maternal family, with whom he was not very close for a long time according to his confidences in the podcast As long as there will be men.

Rebellious teenager, estranged from his mother and his sisters during adolescence when Charlotte Gainsbourg, in full mourning for her eldest Kate Barry, left to live in New York, the young man admits that he does not “have talked for a long time“to his maternal grandmother, Jane Birkin. But for some time, things have changed: Jane Birkin, whose health worries his family, is now one of the people with whom he wants to spend time.

“I just found her. I hadn’t spoken to her for a very long time and today that I see her vulnerable, like that, in need, something has faded away in me and I just need to be there for her.“, he tells the presenter Julia Molkhou. A beautiful declaration to the one who according to him “starting to get a little tired” and that he discovers little by little.

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Moreover, he is not the only one in the family: recently, it is Alice, his little sister and “best friend” of 20 years old who had accompanied their grandmother and their mother to the Ceremony of the Caesars for Jane by Charlotte, the documentary directed by Charlotte Gainsbourg. A ceremony from which the trio finally left empty-handed but which had made it possible to weld their complicity even more.

As a reminder, Jane Birkin recently suffered from cancer and then from a stroke. And in recent weeks, the fate has again relentlessly since she broke her shoulder blade, forcing her to cancel all her engagements. A difficult passage which will have at least allowed him to find this grandson, modest and pampered by Elie and Yvette, his paternal grandparents and “pillars of Créteil“, but happy to finally discover his grandmother.

Having become an actor, like her, but also like her parents and her aunt Lou Doillon, the fiancé of Jordane Crantelle had recently accepted to shoot her first real big role under the direction of Yvan Attal in Human things, with his mother as a partner. An experience that had frightened him, for fear of being “judged by the people we love“, but who had finally been greeted. And who created “memories“with those he loves…