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Joana Balavoine, live or survive

2021-09-12T10:08:54.940Z


PORTRAIT - At 35 years old, the daughter of the singer who died before her birth in 1986, comes out of the shadows to deliver herself unvarnished in the comic strip, Les Lions endormis (Wide Angle ed.). She talks about her addiction to drugs and her journey on the road to recovery and freedom.


"

Could you just lower your mask for a second so I can see your face?"

Before giving herself up, Joana Balavoine likes to know who she is dealing with.

A question of flair, of confidence, which the 35-year-old is able to grant in the space of a few seconds.

Once our face is revealed, she confides with generosity and modesty.

Drug addiction, sexuality, difficulties faced with the absence of a father broke in full glory, journey towards recovery… Daniel Balavoine's daughter bares herself in the comic strip,

The Sleeping Lions.

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With the help of her great friend Sylvie Gaillard, who wrote the script, and the designer Fanny Montgermont, whom she only saw once, Joana Balavoine, 35, gave her story a face.

She took drugs for fifteen long years and got away with it.

"It's been three years now that I'm weaned,

" she says as if, a drowning survivor, she was catching her breath.

The watercolor line of the designer

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Source: lefigaro

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