Filip Nikolic: his daughter Sasha speaks for the first time about the death of her father, 13 years later

On September 16, 2009, the death of singer and comedian Filip Nikolic was announced. Sad news since he was very popular. After having formed one of the most emblematic groups of the end of the 90s, the 2Be3 with Frank Delay and Adel, he had wanted to embark on a career as an actor. He notably appeared in the series Navaro. Since his death, tributes have been linked over the years and, for the first time, it was Sasha Nikolic, his daughter, who spoke on the show. 50’Inside this Saturday, September 24. The young woman, now 17 years old, made some confidences about her mourning and wished to salute the memory of her father. “When you lose your daddy at three, you don’t realize it“, she first confided. If she has some unfortunate memories, Sasha Nikolic assures that she was not aware of what was happening on the day of her dad’s funeral. “Honestly, I didn’t know what we were doing“, she confessed before indicating that she cried only two months after the death of the singer. A moment that Valérie Bourdin, her mother, never forgot and which marked her deeply.

Facing the cameras of 50’Inside, Sasha Nikolic and her mother were determined to salute the memory of Filip Nikolic. Of many new images were broadcast and the journalists of the show were able to talk to his relatives. At only three years old, Sasha Nikolic was far too young to understand what was going on… until the day she collapsed. Valérie Bourdin remembers finding her daughter sitting on the sofa, listening to music. “She was sitting on her sofa, she had headphones on, she was listening to her father’s music and all of a sudden, i see the tears“, she first explained, very moved. As she saw her crying, she rushed to little Sasha to try to comfort him and ask him what was wrong. “But I miss daddy“, she replied. For her part, the young woman says: “My mourning I started when I was 12, 13 years old… There I said to myself, I don’t have a dad”she laments before adding: “We were really very close“This is not the first time that Sasha Nikolic has spoken about her father’s disappearance.”I miss my father. It breaks my heart when other people talk about their daddy”, she confided to Gala in September 2021. On social networks, she also pays tribute to him quite regularly and she got into music, just like her father.

Filip Nikolic, a singer who has never been forgotten

On September 1, Filip Nikolic would have celebrated his 48th birthday. It was on September 16, 2009 that he was found died of a heart attack caused by a drug overdose. His death, Valérie Bourdin never recovered from it and she had assured, in the columns of Gala, that he was not voluntary. “The day before, he had planned to take his daughter to her dance class, he didn’t want to die, it was an accident. Pharmacists gave him over-the-counter medication“, she had first said. The singer’s widow was able to overcome this difficult ordeal thanks in particular to the support of her daughters, Tanaelle and Sasha. “There were pictures of Filip all over the house and even a life-size poster in my mother’s room.“, had indicated Tanaelle in the columns of Gala in September 2020. “With Sasha, last February, we realized that we had to intervene. She was no longer laughing, she was no longer dancing. The longer it went, the more she withdrew. We told him we had to move on“, she continued, determined to come to the aid of her mother. During this same interview, Valérie Bourdin had confided to having “thrown into work. I was obsessed with the idea of ​​creating a cocoon for my daughters. The men, I no longer saw them. I wouldn’t have given any of them an hour, I’d rather be with my kids“she remembered.

Filip Nikolic and Valérie Bourdin, a meeting that changed their lives

At the end of the 1990s, Filip Nikolic crossed paths with Valérie Bourdin. A love at first sight that was immediate for both and for ten years, they will live a very intense love story. From their relationship was born Saha, in January 2005. If the couple was first on a little cloud, Filip Nikolic was victim of a descent into hell in the 2000s. A follower of a healthy and sporty lifestyle, his daily life changed radically when he began to drink, smoke and even take medicines. A very dark period for Valérie Bourdin who tried to be by his side until his death, as she had told in her book, Filip, for lifepublished by Éditions du Rocher in 2010.