During her lifetime, Romy Schneider experienced one of the worst trials as a mother: The loss of one of her children. At the age of 14, his son David, born of his love affair with Harry Meyen, died in a tragic accident on July 5, 1981. Adventurer, the child loved to explore the surroundings. Accustomed to climbing the gate of the family property, the young man steps over it before losing his balance and falling on the iron spikes of the gate. The perforated abdomen, the teenager still manages to return home. Unfortunately, he will not survive his injuries.
In mourning, Romy Schneider then learns that paparazzi managed to break into the hospital where her son had been admitted by posing as nurses. The goal ? Photograph the lifeless body of the young boy. ” That journalists disguise themselves as nurses to photograph a dead child… Where is the moral? Where is the tact? “, had notably launched the actress on the set of Champs-Elysees the next year.
“Romy’s Greatest Drama”
Géraldine Danon, goddaughter of Alain Delon, had also reacted to this tragic episode during an interview with Michel Drucker. ” I believe that the greatest tragedy for Romy we experienced on this set, since in the Champs-Élysées, she had come to speak to this bastard of a photographer, who had dared to photograph his son in the morgue, covered with a shroud. I think she wanted to kill the photographer “. For her, these stolen photos had dealt the final blow to the pain of the star. ” Her voice was from beyond the grave, she was talking about killing this photographer who had dared to take pictures of her son in the morgue. She hit her head on the marble with abyssal desperation », writes the daughter of Raymond Danon in her book « Daughter of “.
For his part, Daniel Biasini, then in a relationship with Romy Schneider at the time, confided in the columns of the magazine Gala: “ This is the worst I have experienced in more than seventy years of life. He almost died in my arms… For six months, I didn’t go out. You wake up thinking about it… It’s a terrible time “.
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