In the early 2000s, after the huge success of the musical “Notre-Dame de Paris” where Hélène Ségara played the fabulous Esméralda, the public cheered the singer at each of her appearances. But, under the pressure, the artist was in bad shape, as she recalls this Saturday, December 3 in the “8:30 p.m.” of France 2: “In this crowd, I feel an enormous loneliness and there I am coming to the end of my rope. (…) I have lunch with my producer and I say: ‘Look, I don’t think I’m made for all this hype around me, for the way my life is taken over, for all that overexposure’,” the 2001 Music Artist of the Year winner recalled. “I’m almost in tears, but I’m in a state of mind where I feel exhausted and robbed. And I tell him: ‘I think I’m going to quit this job’. For me, it’s time to get back to a normal life.”, emphasizes the interpreter of “There are too many people who love you”. grace: participating in Michel Drucker’s program “Vivement Dimanche”.
“You do this job for love, people need your love”
The presenter then turns to Hélène, as she says: “To find ideas, he asks me by message: ‘Who are your heroes?'”, she recalls. “For me, heroes are everyday heroes , like firefighters, doctors, people who save lives, we (the artists, editor’s note) we don’t save lives. And at that moment, he had the idea of inviting Sister Emmanuelle”, explains the singer. On October 10, 2001, sitting on the red sofa, the famous nun spoke to the singer: “I was coming out of a slum (…), I had nothing, there was no pleasure, there was no cinema, there was no Hélène Ségara who sang”, remembers the interpreter who adds: “It is beautiful that she thinks that, that music can help people to escape, and it’s true.”(…) Then “She turns to me, she looks into mine and she says to me: ‘You must not stop this job. You do this job out of love, people need your love’” who, upset, decides to continue her job at this precise moment! On RTL, under the microphones of Jade and Eric Dussart, the singer will also affirm that Michel (Drucker) “gave her one of the most beautiful surprises of (her) career”. Listening to the replay of this meeting, the artist under the spell of Sister Emmanuelle then exclaimed “We are dust next to this lady. It takes a lot of courage to give your life to others…” And this one to affirm, as if she felt the young woman dejected: “Come on, you continue! Go on! Yallah!”. A decisive turning point in the life of the artist, an exceptional memory and quite simply a life lesson instilled by the one who devoted her life to the most unfortunate.
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