Although he joined forces with Laura Smet, his little sister, to recover a share of Johnny’s inheritance from Laeticia Hallyday, from February 2018, David Hallyday did not want money from his father .
“It belonged to him and I didn’t need anything”
This is what he explained this November 21 at the microphone of Pascal Praud, on Europe 1. While he released a cover of the Taulier song a few days ago, “Requiem for a fool“, the 57-year-old singer did not escape a question about the idol of young people. And the legal soap opera which obsessed the French for years after his death (in December 2017) returned to the table. At this remark, David Hallyday explained that he had during Johnny’s lifetime “just a conversation one day, a long time ago.”
He remembers : “Me I told him what I thought about the fact that he had worked all his life, and then that it belonged to him and that I didn’t need anything. So it was in a conversation. But otherwise, no, we talked more about the joys of life, and what we could possibly do together afterwards and all that. But it passed like that quickly one day.”
Moreover, once the legal battle ended with his mother-in-law, Laeticia, David Hallyday had decided to sell all of his shares – right in his boots – and his lawyer had made it known that he received nothing “whether financially or patrimonially“.
Don’t make the same mistake twice
This Tuesday, he clarified to Pascal Praud that his intention was to understand with Johnny “how to deal with it afterwards, because ultimately that’s what unites us all too, is that there’s going to be an end of earthly life somewhere”. Moreover, David Hallyday, who himself is the father of 3 children (Ilona, Emma and Cameron) “also think“now, even if it is”still a little far“of death, but it is also “important” and even if “it’s something unpleasant”“we need to talk about it too,” he says.
On #Johnny Hallyday : “I told him what I thought about the fact that he had worked all his life, that it belonged to him and that I didn’t need anything” declares @davidhallyday In #PascalPraudEtYou on #Europe1pic.twitter.com/x8CWTUq4fl
— Europe 1 (@Europe1) November 21, 2023
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