“If I was to dumb my role down to one thing in life, I’d say to look after people,” he explained. “In the context of my sisters, the protector, right?”
“Even though I knew that it wasn’t fair on myself, I felt utterly guilty. I felt powerless, and I felt like I’d let my sister down and like I’d let my mom down,” Louis shared. “My mom said to me in the last couple of weeks of her life, she was like: ‘You better promise me you look after your sisters,’ and I’m like: ‘Yeah, you know, of course, you know I will,’ and she was like: ‘But specifically Félicité, she’s fragile.’”
“I felt like I’d failed at that time, and that’s the truth,” he explained. “I know now that I didn’t, and if she was here now, she would say I didn’t, but it doesn’t change the feeling.”
Louis added that after his mom’s death, he’d just tried to put all of his family “in a bubble,” and Félicité’s death “really undermined” him. He shared: “It undermined all the hope that I’d had, all these kind of ideas that I was instilling post a life without our mom.”
