Jane Birkin has died aged 76. As revealed by Le Parisien, the English actress and singer was found lifeless at her Parisian home this Sunday, July 16, 2023. A tragic disappearance which occurs almost two years after her stroke in August 2021. At that time already, his relatives had sounded the alarm on the worrying state of health of the artist who wanted at all costs to find his audience again.
“It is obvious that this stroke is linked to the stress generated by the tour [pour promouvoir Oh ! Pardon, tu dormais…, son dernier album, NDLR]by all the energy she puts into defending Charlotte’s film […] Jane is unreasonable when it comes to taking care of herself. She was never reasonable…” said a relative in the press.
Recently, the ex-companion of Serge Gainsbourg had been forced to cancel several concerts, because of his small physical form. “I have always been a great optimist, and I realize that I still need a little time to be able again on stage and with you” she had lamented.
Death of Jane Birkin: Josiane Balasko
While the tributes are raining down, Brigitte Bardot came out of silence with a surprising letter in tribute to the one with whom she had to share Serge Gainsbourg. At the microphone of BFMTV, Josiane Balasko also spoke about her relationship with Jane Birkin.“Even if it’s someone I didn’t see much, I always felt close to her, even if we spoke little. We worked together, we laughed together… She had crazy stage fright in the theater, and at the same time she was magnificent, marvelous on stage Jane. She was an actress, not just a singer […] His voice in his songs is very soft, very whispered. So I always said to her, ‘Harder Jane, harder.’ And I knew very well that she could do it. He was someone who had great empathy towards others, and a lot of humility. She had a humor that started with herself, she was the first to make fun of herself” she said, thus signing a beautiful eulogy.
The actress then admitted that she was already aware of the state of health of Jane Birkin. Jane is really for me someone who represents tenderness and benevolence. He was an extremely kind person.. I knew her sick, I thought she was better and she was going to start touring againand it’s true that there I was told of his disappearance […]it’s a sweetness that disappears in a world of brutes” she concluded sadly.
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