Mystery solved, four decades after the tragedy? In May 1982, when she had just released the second album of her solo career, Joëlle Mogensen is dead. Former member of the group Once upon a time, the young woman was only 29 years old. She was found, lifeless, with close friends, in an apartment in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. If the autopsy evoked an acute edema of the lung at the time, obviously, the rumors wanted it otherwise, especially since the artist, so young, was said to be depressive.
She didn’t want to go to the doctor, she was coughing like sick
“She sure didn’t kill herself, she still had plenty to do, affirms Richard Dewitte, former colleague of Joëlle Mogensen, in the program Miroir Miroir on MelodyTV which will be broadcast on Thursday, November 18, 2021. They discovered thatshe had a heart defect that everyone ignored, including her. She choked on her sleep. She had untreated bronchitis. It was her sister Katia who told me that: she was coughing up blood, she didn’t want to go to the doctor, she was coughing like a patient. The night she left, she choked. “
Joëlle Mogensen was finally joined, in heaven, by Serge Koolenn, the former lyricist and founder of the group Once upon a time, in April 2015. His passing was shrouded in less mystery. Dead after battling cancer, he had mentioned his fight against the disease several times on his Facebook account. “It was during a concert with Polnareff in Saint-Tropez that we met Joëlle and her sister, recalled Richard Dewitte in 2012 to North Lightning. Serge was the fastest and immediately proposed to Joëlle when she was barely 16 years old. She said yes for a joke. What followed proved that there had been a real love at first sight between him and her. For the anecdote, Joëlle’s sister is still married to the early bassist. “Here they are now reunited for eternity …