This Saturday, March 25, 2023, Bernard de La Villardière celebrates his 65th birthday!
But a few days earlier, the host ofExclusive inquiry on M6 was one of the guests ofWe’re doing TV again on RTL with Ophélie Meunier. The journalist is at the head of a new 100% digital and video media called Real Media. “A militant media, ecological but not fundamentalist”. He also took the opportunity to reveal why he had wanted to publicly announce that he had cancer.
Faced with Jade and Eric Dussart, it continued in distant memories. Almost 40 years ago, when he was a mover in Paris. At that time, he found himself in the apartment of Claude François. “I was called to move Claude François’ apartment after his death”. It was then that he met the singer’s last girlfriend, Kathalyn Jones. “I found myself alone with her in a small van. We picked up the little trinkets together. I remember that the elevator was quite narrow. I fantasized all afternoon, telling myself that she might “falling in love with me, that we were going to leave that in place and that I was going to spend the rest of my time with her in a beautiful apartment. At the time, I was living in a small maid’s room”he said.
But reality quickly caught up with him! “She was still a grieving widow and was not at all interested in me.”
What becomes of her?
Kathalyn Jones was present when Claude François died on March 11, 1978 in his Paris apartment. Traumatized by this episode, the young woman decided to return to Los Angeles (California). The former model has changed her life and is became an “interior designer”. She then married “a wealthy businessman” as our colleagues fromParis here. “I had the enormous chance to share the life of an exceptional artist, but since then I have turned the page and rebuilt myself elsewhere and differently”, she confided to Paris Match.
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