She is one of the journalists who rely on CNews. Before gaining this notoriety, Christine Kelly was born in Guadeloupe, on July 13, 1969 in Le Lamentin. Raised by parents who were teachers on the island, she was subjected to a strict and complicated education within a family of four children.
With Paris Match in 2018, Christine Kelly returned to this difficult childhood. “My daily life is steeped in anger. My parents argue. Every day. My father screams. My mother cries”. It is in this electric climate that the Guadeloupean suffers the physical and verbal violence of her mother. “Under the sun, blows rain down. My mother hits me. For a yes, for a no. A badly washed plate or an insufficient mark at school. Always 25 belt blows. Anywhere on the body. She runs after me in the garden, drags me by the hair so that there is the account. I am deprived of outings, but never of homework that I have to write every evening, even during the holidays “.
Abused by her teacher mother, Christine Kelly seeks help from her father, in vain. “Away from himself and his family, outside school hours, he drinks more than necessary; and the rest of the time, inflexible, he throws whatever comes to hand in my face”, confides her to our colleagues. Faced with this ordeal, she can count on the support of her older brother, spared from the bullying and violence of his parents.
In the pages of the tabloid Public, journalist Christine Kelly also admits having made several suicide attempts during her youth, partly because of their attitude towards her. “They always blamed me for existing. When my mother learned that she was pregnant with me, she tried to have an abortion. Under their influence, I attempted suicide”, she confessed in 2019 A dark period that has now been in the past for several years.
After arriving in France with her mother and her family, Christine Kelly is joined by their father who has definitely stopped drinking alcohol. “He shares my mother’s life again and gives her two other children who will never suffer either cries or blows”, explains the one who is also committed to single-parent families. “Today I have forgiven my parents, who have been together for fifty years. But I denounce the culture of silence”.
Discreet about her private life, Christine Kelly makes it a point of honor to protect her family. If she rarely talks about her relationships, her desire to start a family has often been a subject of contention with her former partners. “I was never obsessed with having a child,” said the former member of the CSA in Ici Paris in 2015. “At the time, I separated from certain men because of that. My freedom was very important.”
While the Guadeloupean host was married several years earlier to her husband Pierre, she became pregnant with twins in 2001. A happy and eagerly awaited event for the couple who unfortunately turns to tragedy, after their loss at six months of pregnancy. A “terrible and painful experience” which will affect the home of Christine Kelly. “This loss was the cause of our breakup with Pierre after ten years of marriage,” she assured our colleagues. “There were these ghost babies in our couple. I couldn’t see myself carrying a child in my womb afterwards. But we separated on good terms”.
A few years after this tragedy, Christine Kelly returned to happiness by becoming a mother for the first time. A girl named Léa that the journalist adopted in 2014, in Polynesia. “I have never been so happy in my life,” she confided to Here Paris, adding. “I did not know that such happiness could exist. Everything has a different meaning. The fact of having had my daughter late, at 45, gives me a dimension of power, an indescribable happiness”.
Last April, the flagship host of Face à l’info confided in her role as “strict and cool mom” with Gala. “Strict, because you still have to set limits. For me, there are 3 important points for a child to be able to succeed in his life: emotional control, adaptability and determination. With these three pillars, we advance. You also have to know how to say no. If I refuse him a McDo, I explain to him why. I try to be a mom on the lookout”.
With a famous mother in the media, the daughter of Christine Kelly even seems to have found her calling. “She already wants to be a journalist! She comes regularly to watch the show when she is on vacation. The main thing is that she has an open mind. When I go out with the families of my associations, she is also there to help me”, admits the friend of Éric Zemmour to our colleagues.
With a busy family and professional life, Christine Kelly is not immune to criticism and attacks on a daily basis. Since becoming the female incarnation of CNEWS with her show Face à l’info, the journalist has been attacked in particular for her closeness to the former columnist and presidential candidate (under the Reconquête label) Éric Zemmour. This also earned him death threats.
“I received 4 letters at the very beginning of the show. I never had a critical letter again. And I must receive 50, 60, 100 letters a day! This had never happened to me in my life” , affirmed the ex-face of LCI with Gala, adding: “It’s quite touching. That’s what kept me going. The discrepancy between what some journalists say and the support I receive is impressive.”
Despite the support of his loyal viewers, the sidekick of Cyril Hanouna in TPMP still lives today under protection. “My relatives were sometimes scared. But I tell them that everyone is under protection now! If you don’t want to be under protection, you don’t work. to abandon”. In her latest book Libertés sans expressions, published on June 9, Christine Kelly reveals how her daughter Léa has adapted to this life like no other. “Léa quickly got used to these two men who have been with us permanently since I was threatened with death”, relayed by the magazine Gala. A woman of conviction that nothing can stop in her career and her commitments.
