Alain and Anthony Delon, the eternally tormented father-son relationship

The end of Delon’s “dynasty”. In any case, the clan is weakened by the quarrel between Anthony and Anuchka, the eldest son and very beloved daughter of the holy monster of French cinema. The first accuses his sister of hiding the poor health of the 87-year-old actor. The second completely refutes these claims. Above all, he sees the “resentment, jealousy, revenge” of Anthony Delon, which he says are related to “old disputes that clearly have not yet subsided”, according to his lawyer M Christophe Ayella. Figaro , this Thursday, January 4. Who is the main stakeholder? Alain Delon, for his part, said he was “extremely shocked by the media coverage” and decided to file a complaint against his eldest son. A son with whom the relationship has been suffering for a long time.

“This man, my father, did not love me”

“Son of Delon”… It must be said that it is not easy to bear the name of an idol. Nor living in the shadow of his father, who is often ridiculed for referring to himself in the third person. Anthony Delon somehow knows this. The price to pay, he detailed it in his book Between the dog and the wolf, which was released in March 2022. The 59-year-old actor explores the depths of his relationship with his father. A story “without concessions but with a genuine desire to forgive” that highlights the dark days of the father figure so admired and feared.

In this autobiography, Anthony’s memories are marked by moments when Alain Delon’s strictness often crossed the line of what was acceptable. “I could conclude that this man, my father, did not love me, and so I let him destroy a part of me. But I realized that he wanted me like nothing else in the world, with this love and this boundless flame specific to youth,” he wrote. Here .

Anthony and Natalie Delon’s son describes the actor’s “no days” more accurately on the pages. Cheetah. Those where the dark side of the father prevailed. in the columns of Western France , in May 2022, he recounts this meal in particular, where he sat awkwardly at the table as a child. “It’s the fork that goes to the mouth, not the other way around,” the patriarch rants. After the third remark, the latter throws the plate out of the window and shouts. “Go to your room.” “Possessed again by his demons”, the famous actor takes out a leather whip with which he hits Anthony. “Even my dogs, I don’t beat them with this whip…” says the father to his son.

The humiliations do not stop there. “Since I was 10 years old, my father has repeatedly tried to bend and weaken me. The age when I became a man according to him,” Anthony Delon always assures Western France. He later even shut down his brand of leather jackets, fearing it would overshadow his own derivative products, and barred him from shooting a lucrative commercial in Japan that read, “I’m alive, never. There is only one Delon in Japan, and that’s me.” What was her mother Natalie thinking? No one knows. However, Anthony was able to count on her unwavering support until his death. In Between the dog and the wolf what to quote Gala he describes “a lion in a sparrow’s body.”

War and peace

Despite everything, the son’s admiration for his father, a giant of the 7th art, led Anthony to pursue a career in film and stage as well. How to hope for recognition from the father? “Once after a performance in the theater, where he came to see me exclusively, he told me: “We’ve only seen you on stage.” But I understood that he was talking to the actor, not to his son. The long-awaited backup.

And then, as the years passed, water ran under the bridge, and Anthony’s resentment gradually laid down his weapons to make way for forgiveness. “These are negative feelings that we cannot live with,” he admits, despite the silence of his father, “who is capable of not giving any news and especially not receiving any news for months.” The son adopted this philosophy after realizing his father’s childhood trauma. “I understood that my father treated me this way because he was an unhappy and abandoned child, at the age of 4 in a foster family after his parents’ divorce. When he was 17, his mother signed a release for him to go to war in Indochina… Is that a mother’s love?’

Despite everything, as nature sometimes comes back to haunt, the relationship between Anthony and his father remains complicated, always with ups and downs. In Gala , Anthony Delon realizes that his father, though he tries, “can’t help but reassert the ascent from tripping me up.” That said, the son now knows how to assert himself in the face of his father, whose beliefs are different. As in 2013, when Alain Delon confirmed the “very important place” of the National Front in France. Anthony then didn’t hesitate to take a stand against his father’s comments, describing them as “appalling”. “It’s an actor. He would be better off making movies and offering us a Clint Eastwood-style end of life than improvising as a political scientist,” he added without rancor. On Christmas Eve, she was at her father’s table with her two daughters, Wolf and Love. Perhaps evidence that the absent father saved his behavior as a present grandfather. The fact remains that Anthony’s latest attack on his sister Anoushka, who is very close to Alain Delon, risks adding fuel to the fire. And reopen the scars of the past?

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