“He took his courage with both hands.” Isilde Le Besco looks back on the split between her sister Maiven and Luc Besson.

Maiven was not unscathed by her passionate and intense love affair with Luc Besson. In 1991, when she met him backstage at Caesars, he was 17 years her senior and at the height of her fame, while she was just 15 years old when she began her film career. In his autobiographical book. tell the truth published on May 1 by Denoël publications, Isilde Le Besco, Maiwen’s sister, looks back at the fading of their romance through the eyes of her former child.

The actress first remembered the luxury, while the latter from a family of five lived a modest lifestyle with his family. “My world was divided into two clear poles, two social classes. On the one hand, Belleville, marginality, uncertainty, especially emotional; on the other hand, luxury and lightness at his side, he explains between his lines, as reported Paris game . One day Luke took me to school on his motorcycle. I was happy! Proud. […] I saw Luke as a promise of a better world, an ideal.

Departure to the United States

Especially between her big sister and the principal Big blue, everything is going very fast. A year after they met, the couple got married in a lavish ceremony. A few months later, their daughter Shanna was born. Luc Besson is 34 years old. “In 1993 My sister was sixteen when she gave birth to her daughter. Maiwen told us about the marriage, but it was not formalized in France. I don’t remember her delivery or the clinic where it took place. However, there are dozens of photographs that confirm my presence,” writes Isilde Le Besco. Madly in love and a young mother, Maywen then followed her husband to the United States with her child under her wing.

Five years later, her breakup with Luc Besson was made official in front of all the photographers in France and Navarre. “Cannes, 1997 Fifth element By Luke who opened the festival. Maiven was absent from the red carpet, Luke walked on the arm of the film’s main actor, Milla Jovovich. And his new companion.’ It was a very painful time for the actress who felt “humiliated and abandoned”, never hiding her descent into hell and depression. Maiwen actually shared a poster with Milla Jovovich in her ex-husband’s movie. “He mustered up all his courage to stand up to Luke and the woman who had replaced him on set. […] The car that was supposed to take him to Cannes never arrived. He was forgotten in the eyes of the whole world. He went to the screening alone without cameras. On foot, I think.” And added: “Luke had the power to take someone out of their environment in an instant, offer them the dream of a family life, then take it all back in an instant.”

If Isilde Le Besco originally wrote this book to condemn the sexual harassment of Benoit Jacquet (also accused by Judith Godrech), today she cannot help but think of Luc Besson with indignation and bitterness. “If I look back at the origins of the deviation, the face of Luc Besson appears. (…) He put all his promises to shame. It has plagued the future, creating in me a distrust and a systematic aversion to men,” she declared.