Will 2023 be better than 2022 for Florent Pagny ? It looks like it. The 61-year-old singer, who fought against lung cancer for many months, is now in remission. He is even preparing to resume the course of his career and go back on stage, to the delight of his fans. On this occasion, TF1 devoted a documentarybroadcast on Sunday January 1, entitled Florent Pagny, a free man. It retraces the career of the artist, from the defining moments of his career to the most important stages of his personal lifereported Purepeople.
If viewers were able to see unpublished images of his marriage to his wife Azucena Caamaño, in 2006, with whom he had two children, Inca born in 1996 and Aël born in 1999they were also entitled to unpublished confidences about his romance with Vanessa Paradis. Indeed, Florent Pagny and the actress dated for two and a half years, between 1988 and 1991. When they met, he was 27 years old and she was only 16 years old. This does not prevent the interpreter from Know how to love to be totally “subjugated” by the young woman who, for her part, also falls under the spell of her eldest. They then begin a passionate love storymuch to the astonishment of their loved ones.
“They are crazy”
“One morning, I go down, I arrive in his room and there, I hallucinate. I see Vanessa Paradis’ face. I’m embarrassed, I’m petrified, I’m leaving. And so, I’m on my ass, testified his friend Jean-Pierre Loustau. “So he wakes up, he comes to have a coffee and I say to him: ‘But Florent… Vanessa Paradis?’ […] And in fact, he is crazy, they are crazy“he added.
Quickly, the lovebirds form one of the most emblematic and glamorous couples of the time, as evidenced by the many paparazzi then being happy to machine-gun them with photos. Florent Pagny and Vanessa Paradis even end up settling together in Paris. But their relationship will eventually end in the summer of 1991 when the actress decides to break up with him. A difficult moment to live for the singer. “I know that when Vanessa flies away, it hurts her”confided to our colleagues Jean-Pierre Loustau. “Even if he is a strong person, a fighter, he is going through something terrible”he concluded.