This March 24, 2024, Olivia Ruiz was the guest of Frédéric Lopez in A Sunday in the Country on France 2. During this new number, the 44-year-old singer returned to her “painful” experience in the Star Academy, the tele-hook which revealed it in 2001.
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No one knows how to loosen tongues like him. This Sunday, March 24, Frédéric Lopez received a unique trio of personalities in his show A Sunday in the Countryside on France 2. The talent of the 56-year-old host for getting his guests to talk once again made it possible to offer viewers unique sequences during which actress Macha Méril, Quebec comedian Anthony Kavanagh and singer Olivia Ruiz spoke without taboo. Childhood, career, success but also failures… The guests told their story in all simplicity in order to pass on the lessons learned over the years. This is how Olivia Ruiz returned to her participation in the first season of Star Academy alongside Jenifer and Jean-Pascal Lacoste.
Olivia Ruiz looks back on her painful experience in Star Academy
It was in 2001 and the young woman was only 22 years old at the time. For three months, the Carcassonnaise experienced an exceptional adventure which allowed her to launch her career as a singer. But this experience has not always been easy for Olivia Ruiz. “I have few memories where I sang songs that I loved. With Sacha Distel, magical, You are the sun of my life. With Marc Lavoine, his duet with Catherine Ringer [Qu’est-ce que t’es belle en 1987, NDLR]”, remembered the interpreter of La femme chocolat. The candidate suffered so much that the production suggested she see the show’s psychologist. “I was breaking my teeth in my sleep. I was thinking about my friends and I was like, ‘They’re going to hate me. They will say that I betrayed what I am!’ I’m in panic, what,” she confided in particular.
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“You are stupid”, “You don’t understand anything”: Olivia Ruiz confides her reaction to her parents’ desire to see her win the Star Academy
During her story, Olivia Ruiz also revealed what she did to put an end to her affair. “We’re starting to hear rumors from the corridors. The winner’s album is already written by such and such an artist. And there, I say to myself: ‘Damn, I can’t sing that’. I regularly get called the last week in what they call the confessional and I said: ‘Don’t vote for me because I’m good there,'” recalled the novelist. The one who also said she had been the victim of school harassment also returned to her speech on the evening of her ouster and in which she suggested that the titles of the record composed for the winner of the tele-hook show were not to her taste: ” Even my parents kept saying: ‘Do one commercial song and then you can do whatever you want when you have money.’ “I said: ‘It’s not the money, nor the fact of being famous, you don’t understand anything. You’re stupid, it’s not possible! I just want to do something that I like and in agreement with me,'” she said, asserting that her behavior could have been taken for snobbery.
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