“He gave birth to my 16-year-old sister, cheated on her, then left her.”

Actress and director Isilde Le Besco was born this May 1st Say it right, a confessional book in which she looks back on her relationship with Benoît Jacquet from 16 to 24, as well as her relationship with her sister, the director Maiven. In 1993, Maiven gave birth to her daughter Shanna from her relationship with Luc Besson. He then moved to Los Angeles. But soon the director fell under the spell of Milla Jovovich on the set Fifth element (1997) and leaves its partner. Isilde Le Besco thus returned to the columns for this episode world , on May 1. The author of the autobiographical story thus remembered the feeling of abandonment that he felt at that time. “In hindsight, it feels like we were part of a movie where Luke played the best part and where we were an extension of our older sister,” he explained. And then he missed the movie.”

“The dream of being somewhere else”

For Isilde Le Besco, Luc Besson first represented “someone else’s dream, the way out.” As a child, he lived in precarious conditions, scattered between his separated parents. For his siblings, being a filmmaker is an unexpected escape. “We were moving from the comfort of Luke’s luxury property to our penthouse,” he continued world. From my dear, warm and playful older sister to emotional emptiness and violence.” When the teacher discovers dirty clothes in his suitcase, he reports it to Ddass. But Luc Besson intervenes to place Isilde Le Besco in foster care.

“Luke showed up to a meeting with my sister to commit to protecting the balance of our lives,” she said. Maiven was still a minor, and he was going to become our guarantor, because he was rich and famous.” Decades later, the author said he was not reassured that he was not accommodated, but was surprised that no one questioned his “savior’s” age. The dream, represented by Luc Besson, also collapsed before turning into a “butcher”, he said.

“He told me he couldn’t afford it.”

Thus, he saw his sister, who had become a single mother, return alone from the United States and fall back into uncertainty. “There is the suffering we suffer and what we see in others, which can be just as terrible (…”), he announced this Thursday, May 2, as a guest of Lea Salame on Inter France. I witnessed this and it was terrifying both for the compassion I felt for my sister and for the compassion I had and this promise of a terrible future.

At that time, Isild Le Besco would try to play mediator. “My sister wanted me to ask Luke to go shopping. the alimony he was paying her was insufficient,” she recalled. She would go to Luc Besson to ask him to shop for her daughter. “Looking like a beaten dog, he told me like a poor man that he couldn’t afford it,” he said. He had fathered a child with my 16-year-old sister, cheated on her, then left her, and now he was reluctant to spend money on his child, which he was eating.” Agreed worldthe director of Leon (1994) did not want to respond to these statements until Isilde Le Besco’s book was published.