It all started badly… and yet, during their first meeting on the set of the film Slogan in 1968, nothing suggested the love story that everyone knows today between Serge Gainsbourg And Jane Birkin. At least, on the side of the latter, as she remembered in the columns of World in April 2017. “I found him complicated and arrogant during filming. He was not kind towards me, he made me very uncomfortable”revealed the one who lost her life on July 16, 2023, before specifying: “But in the end, he was a hoot. Funny, charming, considerate”.
At the time, the mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon was only 22 years old, and her French was not yet perfect. It didn’t bother Serge Gainsbourgwho continued to tease the woman of his life until 1980. Things really began to evolve a year later, in 1969, when they recorded the title I love you neither as a duet, originally written for Brigitte Bardot. Two years later, in 1971, Charlotte Gainsbourg was born. While nothing seemed able to shake their relationship in public, things were very different in private.
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Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, a model couple but some arguments
At least that’s what Jacques Jakubowicz, known as “Jacky”, remembers, the television host who worked for a long time alongside Dorothée, as well as Thomas Dutronc. The two were the guests of Ophélie Meunier this Saturday September 30, 2023 on RTL
and made many revelations about the couple. “I often came to rue de Verneuil to look for Serge”remembers the first, who was the press secretary of Serge Gainsbourg between 1973 and 1981.
He was therefore able to rub shoulders with the couple for many years and would have “witnessed arguments”.“The couple was struggling. They no longer got along at all”, he told the journalist. According to him, sometime before their breakup in 1980, “Serge started to be a bit ‘borderline’. He went out a lot and came home at dawn”. Even if Jane Birkin “was very in love with him, very infatuated with him”he thinks that “on a daily basis, it was difficult”. This will not take anything away from the image of the model and madly in love couple that they were able to give for many years.
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