They were never friends, but the death of Johnny Hallyday in December 2017 and the battle that followed will have definitively sealed their enmity. Questioned by Léa Salamé in her traditional photocall Saturday evening on the set of
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on Laeticia Hallyday, the widow of her late ex-husband, Sylvie Vartan preferred to kick in, and refused to give any opinion on her rival and sworn enemy: “Joker”. Léa Salamé, professional, did not wish to force her guest, and respected her request, immediately moving on to the next photo, that of Laura Smet, the half-sister of her son David, to whom this time she returned a nice tribute.
“A lot of strength, beautiful actress, she has a magnificent child, well done my dear“ the singer told him, before paying a vibrant tribute to her son David: “I’m very proud of (him). It seems normal for a mother, but no. I’m not a complacent person, and my son, my battle, is my life (…) It’s true that love has no limits”. A love that she shares with Darina Scotti-Vartan, her daughter, whom she adopted in 1997 with her husband Tony Scotti: “She was born like me in the Balkans, and it’s an unfathomable love. She’s my daughter, and she’s my love too. She shares my life. That was my desire, at the start. She fills me with joy“.
Sylvie Vartan and her immortal love for Johnny
In this photocall, during which she also paid a very beautiful tribute full of emotion to her friend Françoise Hardy who has been battling illness for many years, Sylvie Vartan was also questioned about the two men in her life, Johnny Hallyday on the one hand, and Tony Scotti on the other. Married to the first from 1965 to 1980, then remarried to the second since 1984 (they are preparing to celebrate their emerald wedding anniversary), Sylvie Vartan is torn by the feelings she feels for the first as well as for the second. “That I love you” she declared to Johnny Hallydayto the applause of the public, before immediately paying tribute to the man who has shared his life for forty years: “A miracle…”
Laeticia Hallyday, “a credit card” for Johnny
On January 25, interviewed by The Parisian on the end of her announced career, Sylvie Vartan had launched a dig at her rival, by attacking the exhibition that she had devoted to Johnny Hallyday last December, and which she did not view favorably eye. According to her, this tribute paid to the Taulier was above all a commercial operation aimed at paying off the astronomical debts left to her by Johnny before dying: “I won’t go. You don’t spend twenty years of love to go see one of your credit cards in an exhibition”. A fleeting but brutal reference to the fact that Laeticia is the sole executrix of Johnny Hallyday’s will, as the singer wished in a handwritten letter he wrote in 2014, three years before his death.