Johnny Hallyday died on December 5, 2017, five years ago.
On RTL, the rocker's widow returned to her painful mourning and the legal war that tore the Hallyday clan apart.
Two after the “ final
” settlement
of the estate, which divided the family, that is to say David and Laura on one side, Laeticia and her daughters on the other, the wife of the idol of young people confessed to station reporters that "
Johnny left him with a lot of problems that he didn't deal with for lack of courage
."
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Laeticia Hallyday wants to believe that “
things will calm down
”.
It must be said that the will written by the singer in 2014, which bequeathed all of his property to his wife and his two daughters Jade and Joy, forgetting David and Laura Smet, whom he had had with Sylvie Vartan and Nathalie Baye, had pushed her elders to sue.
But it was him, we couldn't change Johnny.
I forgive him today
Laeticia Hallyday
Since the agreement reached on the inheritance, a peace seems to have been signed between the parties.
Laeticia now makes a slightly bitter assessment of this internal battle in the Hallyday clan because she had to bear terrible pressure alone.
"
Because he left and he didn't settle... He knew I was strong to get there but he left me with a lot of problems that he didn't manage for lack of courage.
But it was him, we couldn't change him.
I forgive him today
,” she explains.
Laeticia Hallyday now definitely wants to turn the page and focus on the future of her two daughters.
She knows that “
it's still a long way
”.
Jade and Joy have “
already experienced abandonment
”.
They are now 14 and 18 years old.
She knows that the disappearance of Johnny has united them: “
We were all three in this mourning, and there was no one left.
When we didn't live like that, that's what is painful
.
The rocker's widow wants to defend Johnny's artistic work.
“
He is no longer there and obviously I take responsibility for it as I have always taken on everything for him.
This is my life, my destiny.
He is the man I have loved and will love all my life, with his weaknesses and his faults
, ”she explains.
To commemorate Johnny's death, M6 will broadcast a documentary by William Karel on December 8.
To discover a little more of the legend of Jean-Philippe Smet.
