Ribery will line up with his Bayern team-mates on Tuesday for their Champions League group game in northern France, 13 years after Lille dumped the then 16-year-old winger.
Lille said Ribery was released for "bad behaviour" following an alleged school fight, but the player insists it was because he was considered too small to succeed in professional football.
Ribery has been at odds with the Ligue 1 team's academy director, Jean-Michel Vandamme, since.
"Regarding my behaviour as well as football [at Lille], there was just one problem at school, where we were [messing about] and I [accidentally] broke a girl's elbow," Ribery told a news conference on Monday.
"This is when I got dumped. But they already wanted to fire me well before because I was too little."
"I enjoy being here," he said. "I have got good memories. I do not feel bad because I play for one of the greatest clubs in the world."
But he claimed that Vandamme still harbours feelings of jealousy towards him. "Even now, when I read some comments by Vandamme, I read many untrue things," Ribery said. "I can see he is jealous."
"We dumped him after 250 warnings and 300 reprimands," he said. "We could not tolerate his behaviour... he fought a girl at school and broke her arm. It was hard because we were seeing his talent even if we never thought he would have such a career."
