paris, france – actor Bernard Campan recently accompanied his son, Loan, on a deeply emotional journey to Vietnam where they successfully located his biological family. The trip, years in the making, culminated in a reunion that Campan described as “overwhelming.”
Campan and his wife, Anne, adopted Loan as a baby after facing challenges with fertility treatments, including multiple unsuccessful IVF attempts. “With Anne, we had lived a lot of failures. IVF, again and again. And then one day, we said to ourselves: ‘we stop’. We made the choice of adoption. A peaceful choice,” Campan recalled in an interview with La Tribune on Sunday, as reported by Gala. Loan joined the family at four and a half months old, before the birth of his sister, Nina, conceived through a final successful IVF treatment.
The family navigated early integration difficulties with Loan, initially attributing them to the adoption process. Later,a diagnosis revealed Loan possessed high intellectual potential (HPI).Years later, Loan expressed a desire to connect with his biological parents, prompting the trip to vietnam.
“We all left there. It was overwhelming,” Campan stated. Now 27, Loan has found stability with his life and friends in France, easing Campan’s initial concerns about his son potentially relocating permanently to Vietnam. “This thought lurks. Let him say: ‘My real place is here,'” Campan admitted, but ultimately expressed relief that Loan remains rooted in France while maintaining a connection to his origins.
Campan is set to return to the stage September 18th in the play A side step alongside Isabelle Carré at the Renaissance theater.