They fell out of the closet when they heard the news: an organizer would have programmed a concert of which they were the headliners and would have been forced to cancel it for lack of tickets sold. False information that is seriously damaging their reputation to which they were quick to respond. Bénabar, furious, was the first to react, in the columns of the weekly Closer, to this announcement concerning his summer performances, as fake as they are harmful: “Concerts are the best remedy for my melancholy, he said. He specifies. Arousing joy and feeling people vibrate is my artistic raison d’être. I worry about no longer touching the public, no longer making them smile, no longer entertaining them on stage… Sometimes I do bad performances, but if you talk about cancellation in July, with Wejdene “for lack of participants” , it’s a fake news … This summer, we added dates, not refunded tickets. »
He is nice but does not let himself be walked on
Once this truth has been established and without anyone really knowing who spread this odious rumor and whether the two lawsuits will be able to take legal action on this sad affair, Benabar said all the bad things he thought about social networks, including the singer is wary like the plague: “It’s the reign of lies, the ephemeral and disinformation, he balances. Only one collaborator has the access codes for my accounts. I’m not the origin of any post and I’m obsessed with clashes … If I have a problem with a guy, I call him, I don’t tweet to warn the whole world. “. A hatred of the confrontation that must however be put into perspective in the light of the altercation between Bénabar and the writer and director Yann Moix on the set of Laurent Ruquier. The artist justifies his reaction by the need not to let himself be pushed around: “We have since explained ourselves. A small pretentious hipster took pleasure in spitting on me. I’m nice, but I have character. Faced with a gratuitous, perverse, twisted attack, I retaliate. » To be fair…
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