At 86, Alain Delon takes an uncompromising look at his rich life, made up of happiness and pain. One of them is the death of his great love Romy Schneider, exactly forty years ago. He tackles this painful subject for The Sunday Journale but also returns to his entire career and in particular his role as a complicated father, of which his son Anthony Delon spoke in his latest book, and his current daily life. Without taboo, he also expresses himself on his own death for The JDD and the controversial subject of euthanasia.
In 2019, Alain Delon suffered a stroke. Since then, he believes that he is doing rather well in the columns of the Sunday newspapersettled in Douchy where he enjoys the calm and rest offered by his surroundings: “Physically, I feel pretty good even though I’m tired and walking with a cane. But we are not going to make movies: we know where we are going, how it ends. All my friends are gone, Jean-Paul [Belmondo] Last year. Romy, Mireille [Darc]Natalie [Delon], all the women in my life are gone too. The only one left is Brigitte [Bardot]. We are very good friends.“
With his legendary colleague, Alain Delon spoke about the aftermath, tinting his words with self-mockery: “I tell her that I hope she leaves before me so that I can give a eulogy in the church. She replies: I hope it will be you first!“Finding life grim, filled with dramatic events, he planned to be buried, not with his dogs in Douchy because”too complicated compared to the law”, but with his mother in Bourg-la-Reine, or elsewhere. He then reveals that he is not afraid of dying but of suffering: “I don’t want to end up in a hospital bed.”
This is how he does not evade the question of euthanasia, expressing his clear position: “I am for. In Switzerland, it’s possible: you arrive with your friends, you make a last speech, then the doctor gives you an injection in front of your friends and it’s over gently.”
Three years ago, the father of three children – Anthony, Anouchka and Alain-Fabien – confided in The Illustrated on the subject of “sweet death”. Referring to the support offered by the Swiss association Exit, which defends non-relentless therapy and free practice of assisted suicide, Alain Delon said that he found their work “grand“, saying to himself “totally for“, pressing the “very clean, neat side” of this method. At present in France, euthanasia is not legally defined, its prohibition is one of the applications of the principle of the unavailability of the human body. The new Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, at who the legendary actor sent his congratulations, will she resume the debates on the bill on the end of life?