Romy Schneider was a true legend of cinema. The German actress naturalized French has notably played the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, nicknamed "Sissi", which has earned her recognition around the world. But everything stopped on May 29, 1982: the actress was found dead, at the age of 43, in her apartment in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, by her companion, producer Laurent Pétin. Since this tragedy, the reasons for his death remain unclear: so as not to "destroy the myth", the prosecutor in charge of the investigation would indeed refused to request an autopsy. His daughter Sarah Biasini (born out of her love for Franco-Italian journalist Daniel Biasini), looks back on his family history and on this drama in his book The Beauty of the Sky (Stock ed.).
Did Romy Schneider commit suicide? Sarah Biasini is categorical
On sale for this book released on Wednesday January 6, 2021, Sarah Biasini works to dismantle rumors circulating around her family, including rumors that his grandmother Magda slept with Adolf Hitler. “I don't care about my grandmother's behavior. If I was convinced that Magda had slept with Hitler, I would say so ", has she for example assured in The Obs before explaining: "But that's part of the mythology. Just like my mother's alleged suicide or her addiction to alcohol and sleeping pills.". Sarah Biasini is adamant that her mother did not kill herself. The 43-year-old actress refutes this thesis in her book, and every time she is asked about the subject. "That people stop making money by peddling lies … This is completely ill-intentioned. We want to degrade it", had she let know theAFP in 2018, quite annoyed after the release of the feature film, 3 days in Quiberon, in which Romy Schneider is presented as a broken and alcoholic actress.
Sarah Biasini is 43 years old, her mother's age when she died. The stage actress was four and a half years old when her father told her that her mother had passed away. Her memories are fuzzy, but the emotion is palpable when she talks about this terrible day in the pages of The Beauty of the Sky (Stock ed.). "I'm not crying, I'm not saying anything. I stay in front of him, not moving. I pretend I'm not listening to what my father is sayingSarah Biasini actually already knows what her father is trying to tell her: "I was there that day. In the apartment", she remembers.
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