This Friday, December 16, Michel Drucker was the guest of "C à vous" to promote the documentary "Once upon a time Champs-Élysées" broadcast in two parts on December 21 and 28 on France 3. come back to a number of cult sequences that punctuated the show, including the one where Serge Gainsbourg addresses
"I said I want to fuck her"
to American singer Whitney Houston.
It was in 1986.
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"People talk to me about
it all the time, all over the world, when I travel,"
comments
Michel Drucker on the France 5 set.
the host who ensures that
"everything was going well"
until the last quarter of an hour of the show.
Then comes the drama.
He says that the interpreter of
I Will Always Love you
immediately caught the attention of Serge Gainsbourg:
“When I get up, am I really telling you what he told me?
Won't we cut?
He looks at her and says to me “she has an ass...” You present her to me!”
.
By his own admission
“like an idiot”
, the host of “Champs-Élysées” runs and invites the American artist to sit on the sofa by their side.
“I should have kicked him out”
The rest, we know.
In an alcoholic English, Serge Gainsbourg declares that he wants to have a sexual relationship with Whitney Houston, live on television.
Michel Drucker will attempt a more polite translation:
"No he said 'you are great'"
, understand
"he said you are pretty"
before adding
"he said that, but it happens to him from time to time"
.
Too late, the damage is done and the scandal is international
“It's a scandal in the United States, you can't know.
A drunken singer sexually assaults Whitney Huston in front of a haggard presenter,”
he recalls, still a little embarrassed, before adding:
“But today Sandrine Rousseau, she would have arrived with secateurs
. ”
For Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine
"it would be scandals every Saturday evening"
if "Champs-Élysées" was still on the air as viewers knew it at the time.
"You should have apologized live, but were you stuck?"
she asks.
"I should have kicked him out, told him 'listen, you go out or you apologize'"
admits Michel Drucker today.
The path of the animator will cross again that of the singer a few years later during an Emmy Awards ceremony in Monaco.
Whitney Huston then told him
"It's was my worst nightmare"
,
"it was my worst nightmare"
in French.