‘He doesn’t have a life’ – Kylian Mbappé’s mother reveals the price Real Madrid forward has paid for fame | OneFootball

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.

Lamari on Mbappé: ‘He doesn’t have a life’

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.

GFFN | Luke Entwistle