A love story that forever marked his life. In the 1960s, Michèle Torr had a romance with Christophe. From their relationship was born Romain, this son that the interpreter ofAline never wanted to recognize. A choice that Michèle Torr bitterly regrets. “His attitude towards my son was pitiful. He was a coward.”she declared without tongue in cheek in the columns of the magazine Ciné Télé Revue, published this Thursday, December 21. And to continue after having assured that she only kept “good” of his relationship with the singer: “I knew, when I was expecting Romain, thathe wasn’t going to be there, and I chose to have my son alone.”
The interpreter of Take me dancing tonight confided that Christophe and Romain were “in touch” but saw each other “in secret”. “Yves, Christophe’s younger brother, who died before him, had done everything to bring them together, but officially, Christophe never recognized Romain. His name is Vidal (name of Jean Vidal, husband of Michèle Torreditor’s note)”, she indicated. During this interview, Michèle Torr returned with emotion to the hospitalization and the last moments of the life of Christophe, who died of Covid-19 on April 16, 2020. A moment that was particularly painful for his eldest son. “It saddens me because Romain couldn’t have any news, (…) Romain, who has multiple sclerosissuffered a lot”, she said during this interview. And to add: “There were roadblocks, and not just doctors.” In an interview given to France Sunday, in April 2020, Romain Vidal-Torr spoke openly about his relationship with his biological father. “We didn’t have a father-son relationship but rather a relationship of friends.” Of the interpreter of Blue Words, he has only one relic, carefully kept in his bedside table. “It’s a medallion of Saint Christopher that Christophe’s mother had […] given to my mother.”he confided.
Michèle Torr pregnant with Christophe: her harsh words which marked her for life
Returning from a trip to Seville, in the South of Spain, Michèle Torr learned that she was expecting a happy event. If Christophe was first “excited about having a son” and did “lots of projects for this child to come”as the singer recounted in her son’s book Christophe my unknown father (ed. Robert Laffont), the situation evolved very quickly.
When Michèle Torr’s belly rounded, “there were no more plans”. “The party was over” leaving room “struggle”. She then understood that Christophe wanted her to have an abortion. Facing a man “who was not courageous enough to take on the slightest responsibility”Michèle Torr did not ask him to recognize this unborn child. “I wanted to keep this child, I was happy to have him, to be pregnant. And nothing would taint my happiness”. A few months after the birth of Romain Vidal, the couple separated. An end that the singer experienced “like an immense heartbreak”confided Michèle Torr to the magazine We bothJanuary 10, 2023.
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