After her two young daughters Jade and Joy, it is Laeticia Hallyday’s turn to return to the forefront of the media scene. Just one week after his daughters’ interview in Seven to Eight (TF1), the widow of J ohnny Hallyday was invited on the set of the weekly show C the weekly as part of the launch of the exhibition dedicated to Johnny Hallyday on December 22 at Porte de Versailles (Paris).
A visit to the France 5 set during which the mother looked back with nostalgia on her love story with the rocker and in particular the beginnings. A meeting during which Laeticia Hallyday was unfortunately not in the best of form…
“It was improbable that we met, but at the same time, I think that it was no coincidence. It was a complicated period of my life. I weighed 42 kilos. I wanted to die. Starving yourself was “I let myself go too, it’s a form of silent suicide and I met a man who was as damaged as me with flaws and fragilities”, she remembered to Aurélie Casse.
Two tormented souls who surprisingly managed to rise to the top. A feat that Jalil Lespert’s ex-partner tried to justify. “When we have experienced the descent into hell or this way of destroying ourselves through addictions, through violent things, we can understand the demons of the other without trying to change them”she confided.
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Johnny Hallyday suicidal?
At the question “Was Johnny Hallyday sometimes suicidal”Laeticia Hallyday responded without filter: “Yes. He would not have become the artist he became if he did not have this dark side. He constructed a separate character for himself and he drew on it to create to be a artist who gives on stage with great humility and generosity. The love of the public has also repaired him”,concluded the widow of the interpreter‘Light the fire. Touching honesty.
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