It is once again an unfiltered story that Jean-Jacques Debout delivers with his book The color of ghosts (ed. Talents Editions). And how fascinating are the stories of Chantal Goya’s husband, over time. From the Yéyé years to more recent times, the songwriter tells some crazy anecdotes with many personalities, from Sylvie Vartan – and their astonishing estrangement – to Grichka Bogdanoff – who loved the same woman as him –, but also about Serge Gainsbourg. A mind-blowing episode since Jean-Jacques Debout tells this evening where the father of Charlotte Gainsbourg cut his neck with a razor tear to flirt with a girl.
While Jean-Jacques Debout had just sung with Serge Gainsbourg in the Collège Inn program, they treated themselves to a dinner at La Coupole, where Serge then revealed to him “his talents as a provocateur“. The duo ended up in a bar and the interpreter of La Javanaise then fell in love with the bartender,”very pretty“. While the artist asked her to join them in a nightclub after her service, she refused the invitation. “She couldn’t, because her boyfriend was coming to pick her up.“, reports the husband of Chantal Goya in his book. An answer which naturally did not suit the former companion of Jane Birkin, who embarked on a game of provocation going a bit far.
He was going to kill himself and slit his throat because of her.
“Serge replied that if she did not accept, he was going to commit suicide and slit his throat because of her.can we read. That’s when he came out of the close of his jacket a razor blade that he ran around his neck, cutting himself slightly” Jean-Jacques Debout continues this improbable story: “Which made a few drops of blood run down the collar of his white shirt. Gainsbourg repeated that since she had refused his invitation, he had decided to end it.“And the poor young woman ended up fainting.”That’s when the girl fell backwards behind her barwrites the songwriter. She was passed outas they say, not knowing him, traumatized at the sight of blood.“The boss of La Coupole had to call the SAMU and Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Jacques Debout went by his side to the Necker hospital. A rather incredible night.