To learn more about Serge Gainsbourgwhether it was her daily life before her disappearance on March 2, 1991, or her relationship with Jane Birkin, Ophélie Meunier decided to question the singer Thomas Dutronc
and TV host Jacky Jakubowicz this Saturday September 30, 2023 on RTL.
Both of them frequented the singer for a long time, and the host was even his press secretary from 1973 to 1981. If he mentioned the love story between Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, the son of Jacques Dutronc, especially wanted to address the negative images that certain fans had about the artist. Totally false images according to his statements.
It was when Ophélie Meunier asked Thomas Dutronc if this “image of a big child”,which has always stuck to the interpreter of Javanese was consistent or not. “Yes. I even have memories of someone who was very tender. An immense sensitivity”confirmed the 50-year-old artist before indicating: “I really have this regret, once again for having been so young when I knew him. I was one of the last to have seen him but I was just 16 or 17 years old, I was still such a kid. But I have this happiness of being close to him without knowing more”.
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Thomas Dutronc corrects the negative image of Serge Gainsbourg that some fans may have
Thomas Dutronc has always been “in love”of Charlotte Gainsbourg’s father. So much so that it “revolted when people [lui] said ‘oh he’s dirty'”. “While I found that he was always elegant, well dressed, always careful about what he put on”defended the interpreter of It is so good. He also ensures that Serge Gainsbourg has always been a person who “smelled good” : “and I loved giving him a kiss to say ‘hello’ because his skin was so soft and he smelled so good.”.
Despite everything, the 50-year-old singer recognizes that “the very end”he has “seen times when things got completely out of control” but “that’s not it at all” that he wishes to remember from the icon who inspired him so much.
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