In the podcast "Yannick Noah, between you and me", he confides for the first time about his complicated relationship to celebrity. "The notoriety embarrassed me so much that I wanted to go into exile.
I moved to the U.S. because I couldn't handle this constant thing," he says. His desire to serve the community of Etoudi, a village in which he grew up, seems his driving force today. "I obviously have a small impact on what is happening today, because I have the possibility and the means"