On November 6, 2022, Florent Pagny turns 61. Now happy with his wife Azucena, the singer remembered on the show The sofa on France 3 his story with the pretty Vanessa Paradis when he was 27 years old. Much younger than him at the time, the actress was a minor when she met in 1988 with the interpreter of the title Know how to love. Simple at first”big brother” protector with the star, the singer had quickly fallen under the spell of his magnetic aura. Unfortunately in 1991, everything came to an abrupt end. The actress of the film The Heartbreaker decides to leave Florent Pagny to go live an idyll with Lenny Kravitz.
“It wasn’t just a story that stopped. The most disturbing thing is to see that my friends had rather chosen to follow her than to stay with me. That was almost what bothered me. In addition, I arrived at a time when, economically, it was difficult and, around Vanessa, we explained to her that she should not stay. 1992 was not a good year for me“, confided the singer facing Marc-Olivier Fogiel in 2016.
Always very benevolent towards the interpreter of the title Divine Idyll, Florent Pagny did not understand why Vanessa Paradis never wanted to speak to him again following their breakup. “I don’t necessarily turn the pages. There, in this case, it is rather she who shot it. It’s been seventeen years since we’ve seen each other, or spoken, or anything. But hey, I don’t miss it, I have my life, everything is fine“, he revealed with incomprehension, even adding that he had offered him a musical duet in the past to bury the hatchet. “One day, I called her to suggest a duet and she replied: ‘Listen, that’s a bit like Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan.’ So she didn’t want to do it“, he explained, a little dumbfounded by the attitude of his ex-girlfriend.
Currently in the midst of a fight against lung cancer, the singer was able to find comfort with his (real) friends but also with his wife Azucena and his children Aël and Inca.