Their relationship hit the headlines at the time: in 1969, Coluche and Miou-Miou began a love affair. If it was quickly adored by their respective fans, Miou-Miou’s mother did not see it very favorably. And for good reason: at the time, the majority was always set at 21 years old, and if Coluche was 24 years old, Miou-Miou was only 18. Interviewed by Thomas Isle in Culture Media A few days ago, Sylvette Herry, her real identity (she owes her pseudonym Miou-Miou to Coluche) reveals that she had to firmly oppose her mother, who had considered taking legal action to send her first love… in prison !
“She told me that she was going to sue him for misappropriation of a minor, because I was 18 and the majority was 21 before”remembers Miou-Miou. In total contradiction with her mother, Miou-Miou did everything to save her lover, and cut ties with the one who gave birth to her: “I told her that if she did that, I would go and steal from stores and she would be responsible. So we came to an agreement and the same year, I broke my employment contract. apprenticeship and I was emancipated!” confided the actress.
Miou-Miou left Coluche for Patrick Dewaere, and Dewaere for Julien Clerc
Ultimately, the love story shared by Coluche and Miou-Miou will only last a few years. On the set of Waltzeswith Gérard Depardieu, the actress falls madly in love with Patrick Dewaere. Together, they gave birth to their first child, a daughter, Angèle Herry, who will celebrate her 50th birthday next summer. A few years later, on the set Love and fresh water, she meets the singer Julien Clerc, with whom she falls in love. She breaks up with Patrick Dewaere, who, in retaliation, comes to blows with his rival. The following year, Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou were forced to collaborate together on a film in which they both co-starred, F… like Fairbranks.
From her love story with Julien Clerc, her second daughter, Jeanne Herry, was born in 1978. But in 1981, the couple separated, a few months before the suicide Patrick Dewaere
. The actor, prodigy of French cinema, took his own life at the age of 35. The daughter that Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou had together, Angèle Herry, was subsequently adopted by Julien Clerc, when she reached the age of majority. From 1998 until his death in October 2022, Miou-Miou shared the life of the novelist Jean Teulé. Coluche, for his part, later married Véronique Colucci, from whom he divorced for Véronique Genest, who will refuse his advances. A few months before his death, he found love again with Fred, a sex shop saleswoman.