His brother Jonathan is also a former footballer[1][2] and also represented Mauritius internationally with the Mauritius national football team.[3] Growing up in Paris, France,[114] Bru reflected on his childhood, saying: "It was a hard, tough area where I grew up and I have got friends who have been in prison and are still in prison, Who knows what would have happened to me if I didn’t make it as a footballer? Maybe I would have got dragged down that road that some of my friends have gone, I don’t know. From the age of six though, I always wanted to play football and my brother and I would play every minute that we had that was free."[115]