Vianney on his role as a stepfather and the love of a child “who is not ours”

If he remains quite discreet about his private life, keeping most of his relationship with his wife Catherine and their son Edgar to himself, Vianney (coach of The Voice on TF1) likes to talk about the relationship that unites him to his daughter-in-law, born from the first marriage of the cellist who shares his life. To the point of making a song out of it. A relationship that is not always simple but full of love, and which makes her very happy…

It’s a complex role, which he experienced long before becoming a dad himself. In 2016, when he was only 25 years old and had just met Catherine, his wife, the singer Vianney found himself confronted with a little surprise guest, the daughter from the first marriage of the young cellist. A little girl with whom he has now built a very strong bond, but not easy every day.

“I discovered the beauty but also the complexity, the joys and the sorrows of loving a child who is not ours“, had also explained in the interview of seven to eightin March 2021 the coach of The Voice. Aware, moreover, that the difficulties had been shared between him and his daughter-in-law: “It’s almost a way of the cross in some ways. It is difficult for a child who is surrounded by a parent who is not his genetically. If he has this awareness, there is a construction of a link with this Other who arrives in his life, for the child it is very difficult.“

His method? Him “leave time“, even if it means “not necessarily welcome“.”It’s normal. It’s just that it takes a lot of love. You have to keep this course, really, to be fully accepted“, he advised. A situation “complicated” but “doable with love“, of which he made a superb song, Father in lawa unique declaration of love to…