There are those who are afraid of it, and there are others, like Gérard Lenorman, who seems to accept it and not worry about it. Indeed, the one who was on the set of “Vivement Dimanche” this Sunday January 30 on France 2, also granted an interview to our colleagues from L’Union. The opportunity for the singer to discuss his way of apprehending death and the fact that it did not scare him more than that. A speech reminiscent of Academician Jean d’Ormesson, who left us in 2017 and who had no apprehension about it except one. “Death does not scare me”he started at the microphone of Europe 1 before adding: “What bothers me is not knowing what will happen. I would have been desperate to die in 1943, not to know how the War would end”.
For Gérard Lenorman, the situation is different. Or rather, the reasons pushing him not to be afraid of the “after”. Quite simply because, according to him, he would have had a very good life after the many obstacles he had to overcome. “Do you realize the life I’ve had? I never whined. I grew up in a difficult environment. I was abandoned, my mother was atrocious…”he recalled, assuring, afterwards, that he was swimming in great happiness at the present time: “today, I am the happiest of men. I continue to practice the job of my dreams and I am thanked every day for my songs. I have no reason to cry. I am aware of being a nobody but I’m proud of my career. I’m respected by millions of people and that’s rewarding.”
Going back to his difficult childhood and his relationship with his mother, the latter would have shown “atrocious” with him as he confided in his book I was born at twenty (Calmann-Lévy) published in 2007. “I was treated harshly, if you like. And you don’t let go like that, especially when your early childhood suffered.”told the interpreter of “Mom” that Serge Lama, having also experienced a difficult situation with the one who gave birth to him, wrote for him.
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