Since the death of Johnny Hallyday on December 5, 2017, his clan has not stopped tearing apart.
In an interview with the readers of Le
Parisien
, Laeticia Hallyday returned to the disagreements that she and her stepchildren, Laura Smet and David Hallyday, have been going through since the singer removed them from the family heritage.
And this, while a first official tribute to the artist will be held on Tuesday, September 14 in Bercy.
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"I could not imagine this event without them"
, says Laeticia, who now manages the Hallyday empire on her own and organized this tribute day which begins with the inauguration of a controversial statue of the rocker and a Bercy tribute concert , broadcast on France 2.
“Things have calmed down a bit but our reports remain complicated.
I held out my hand several times, I would have liked this inheritance story to stay with the family, for us to talk to each other around a table when Johnny is gone, to be able to talk about my husband's decisions ”
, she laments.
Wishful thinking, she knows it.
"We are not an ordinary family"
, concedes Laeticia, before affirming to have
"tried to renew the dialogue, to appease the resentments, the unspoken"
.
“Unfortunately we continue to talk to each other through lawyers.
I invited David to come on stage I would have loved him to sing
Sang pour sang [title he wrote for his father,
Editor's note
].
He kindly replied through his lawyer that he couldn't be there because he is on tour.
I sent Laura an email.
Unfortunately she did not reply to me, but gave a reply on Instagram.
It saddened me a lot. ”
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While hoping one day to be able to speak directly with the children of the one whom she still calls
"my husband"
, Laeticia exposes a little more the rupture between the two clans.
"We have a feeling of abandonment, my daughters Jade and Joy no longer exist for them, they no longer have any connection with David and Laura
," she says
.
It's sad but I think over time things will calm down.
Johnny certainly didn't do it right before he left, but we're not going to rewrite history.
And I hope that one day Jade and Joy will find their brother and sister. ”
A traveling exhibition for the fifth anniversary of his death
The 46-year-old widow also returned to the course of the day on Tuesday,
"the culmination of two years of work"
, she said, after
"several postponements because of the coronavirus".
“It will be in three parts.
In the morning, the inauguration of the Johnny-Hallyday esplanade and the work in front of Bercy, then of Johnny's Bar in the Accor Arena, modeled on the Hard Rock Café.
And then in the evening the concert, broadcast live on France 2 "
, during which
" about twenty artists "
will follow one another on stage, she detailed, with the highlight of the show Catherine Ringer, who
" will come to sing Gabrielle "
.
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Laeticia also defended the statue which will be inaugurated in Bercy, in honor of the late singer, while the presence of a Harley Davidson aroused the ire of elected environmentalists in Paris.
“I wanted a work dedicated to Johnny who hated sculptures with his effigy. The guitar and the Harley are parts of Johnny's life. Difficult not to associate them. It's his real bike, but it's been boneless, without an engine, without the elements that could annoy the ecologists. This work has unleashed passions, but it's good. Johnny loved to be talked about. When we didn't talk about him, he was almost upset, ”
she smiles.
Finally, the former model revealed to work
"for two years on a traveling exhibition for the fifth anniversary of
[the]
death
[of Johnny]
"
:
"She will go on the roads for five years. She will first settle in Brussels for six months. Johnny felt half French, half Belgian, so I also wanted to mark the history of his roots. Then, she will travel throughout France. ”
His model?
“I was inspired by the exhibition on David Bowie, which marked me. I provide everything, I am accompanied by historians, by Philippe Labro and Daniel Rondeau. We're going to get the fans involved. We will recreate his Parisian office identically, with his real objects, costumes ... "
A project without Laura Smet and David Hallyday. The latter, through his lawyer, Pierre-Jean Douvier, wanted to respond to Laeticia.
“It would be wise to devote oneself exclusively to the memory of Johnny and that the sisters of David and Laura are not systematically involved in public statements. Only the facts count: David pays homage to his father, including at each of his concerts, ”
explains his advice. And to specify the reason for the singer's absence from the show in homage to Johnny: he is rehearsing for his concerts which begin in October. Before adding that the eldest son of the rocker did not ask for any stamp
"to come to the tribute"
.
"All this is pure invention and the objective is to make it dirty, no one can be fooled",
concluded Maître Douvier. Proof that the war of the Hallyday clan is still not over.
