Kylian Mbappé’s (26) mother, Fayza Lamari, has addressed the France captain’s stardom during the ‘Demain le Sport‘ event, organised by Radio France, L’Équipe, and France Télévisions last Tuesday.
Lamari spoke about her son during a roundtable, called ‘Mothers of Champions‘. She spoke alongside Céline Bonnet, mother of Olympian Léon Marchand.
The latter revealed that she had contacted Lamari, prior to the Paris Olympics, to speak about how Mbappé dealt with stardom. That conversation, Bonnet revealed, lasted an hour and a half.
The pair then went on to discuss their sons, largely their personal life and how stardom has affected it. “He is a lot more at ease on the pitch than off it. Off the pitch, he doesn’t have a life, but it is the one that he has chosen,” said Lamari.
Speaking last week during a press conference, Mbappé evoked his life being a bit “calmer” having made the move from Paris Saint-Germain to Real Madrid back in 2024. “I am a bit calmer in Madrid than in Paris,” said the France captain.
Lamari also evoked her son’s romantic life. “I had a talk with him last year when it wasn’t going so well. I asked him if he didn’t want a girlfriend. He told me: ‘Do you see a woman in this mess?’ He sometimes went around the ring road in a Peugeot 206, just to see what it was like. He can’t even walk in the street anymore. It makes me sad,” said Lamari in the panel, transcribed by Le Parisien.
She then went on to evoke her son’s trip to Stockholm, which led to a rape enquiry that was later closed. “At the time that he went to Stockholm in October (2024), I went with 35 friends to an island to celebrate my 50th birthday. In a few months, I put on 12kg. I was hurt. I trusted Kylian, but I asked him: ‘Did you do it?’ and he said, ‘Are you finished with this madness?’ It is the only trip that we didn’t organise and we paid the price,” said Lamari.
PrimeGeorge07
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One thing y’all must know is that footballers do not have a life outside the pitch, no matter how much they have because money doesn’t truly bring happiness and only those that have it will understand this and I pray y’all have money someday in Jesus name. Now you see no matter how much a footballer has he never truly enjoys it with his family because he is always on the pitch or in on the hospital bed through injuries. When he finally retires maybe at 35 or 40 then he becomes too old to eat some certain he loved but wasn’t allowed to eat it just to stay fit so the viewers can enjoy him play. Lastly when the retires they always visit the hospital because of one or two illnesses for over using the body. They don’t truly have a life outside the pitch.