Claire Chazal will not let go of PPDA. While the journalist is accused of sexual assault, the former presenter of 20 hours of TF1 continues to dispute the alleged facts and remains presumed innocent. What Claire Chazal did not fail to recall during an interview with Femme Actuelle in mid-January. "I am unfortunately surprised by the time in which we live, which consists in throwing names into food, and in throwing them to the popular vengeance and especially in condemning them definitively without even that justice has intervened", had lamented in the magazine the one who had a child, François Poivre d'Arvor. On April 29, this son "who matters most" celebrated his 26th birthday. For the mother, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor is therefore above all the father of her son, the one who helped her to give him the best education.

"I find it difficult to speak for him because that's what he hates the most, but what I can say is that we tried with Patrick to protect him as best as possible by living in intimacy quite normally since me (…), I have always done things at home, I brought him to school and his father too, ”she explained in Vivement Dimanche on October 20 2019 on France 2, long before the revelation of the accusations which target the one with whom she formed a flagship couple, on which Le Monde looked again on January 21. The presenter of Passage des arts had told Michel Drucker to have "shown him a simple and normal life". In 2014, she explained in the columns of Paris Match having taught François "the desire to go to the end of things, respect for the truth and the refusal of lies". “The essence of François' education can be summed up in two words, to be happy. That he cultivates a taste for happiness and pleasure is very important, ”she summed up at the time.

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A worried but lucky mother

"I am a very caring mother and I would do anything to help her," said the presenter of the Grand échiquier. Like any mother, she is full of praise for her son. “François is of extraordinary strength, far superior to mine, he is much smarter than me and has many more skills”, she launched filled with maternal love in the magazine. However, everything has not always been easy, and doubts have often taken hold of the journalist. "It's always difficult. We are worried all the time. We wonder if we will know how to go about it. (…) At one time in my life, I consulted a shrink, ”acknowledged Claire Chazal in an interview given in 2013 to Télé-Loisirs. Fortunately, her son was not a complicated boy. “With François, I was a lucky mother,” she rejoiced before congratulating her dad.

François is making a name for himself in all discretion

"With Patrick, we managed to give him images of father and mother, positive I hope, in any case attentive and loving", says was she being congratulated. It was not until 2005 that Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, in his book Confessions, publicly admitted to being François' dad, when he was 10 years old. Regardless, according to Claire Claire Chazal, that wouldn't have stopped him from being a good dad. And anyway, according to his mother, he prefers shade to light. “François is not looking for notoriety. It is for this reason that he went abroad, to be judged on what he really is, not on his name. And I understand it well, ”explained the journalist to Paris Match in 2018.

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