Laeticia Hallyday was the guest of Daily this Monday, November 28 to present an exhibition and a documentary in tribute to her late husband Johnny Hallyday. The opportunity for her to share their sometimes troubled daily life, speaking of a form of silent suicide.
Laeticia Hallyday was the guest of Yann Barthès on the set of Daily (TMC) this Monday, November 28, to present two projects paying tribute to her late husband Johnny Hallyday. On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the death of the rocker on December 5, an exhibition focusing in particular on his demons and his suffering will take up residence in Brussels, before settling in Paris. “He called it his sources of inspiration. He always needed to destroy himself in order to rebuild himself. It’s the story of his whole life, it’s part of his DNA” she reported, noting that the opening was scheduled for December 20.
Beforehand, M6 will broadcast on December 8 a documentary entitled Johnny by Laeticia which will highlight the relationship between the two spouses. The presenter thus asked Laeticia Hallyday how life was with this rock star whom she accompanied everywhere, in life as on the stage. “I was helping him a lot, trying to not to judge this harm he was doing to himself and the harm he did to others” she said, before continuing: “It’s painful to see the being we love destroying himself and playing with his life, hurting himself. He wrote his legend through these moments”to describe the “weaknesses”without going back further on certain scenes where his children David and Laura appeared cut in the final cut.
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Laeticia and Johnny, two tortured souls
While the documentary must also evoke the infidelities of Johnny Hallyday after the adoption of their eldest daughter Jade, Laeticia nevertheless wanted to point out that both were tortured souls. “I was as tortured as him. He saved me, we both saved each other” she said, frankly. Without flinching, she then confided to Yann Barthès: “We didn’t want to live, it was a form of silent suicide, that’s why we understood each other”. Laeticia finally concluded: “With such an age difference, our meeting was unlikely”.
The documentary Johnny by Laeticia is the result of a compilation of archive footage that she herself had filmed. “These are authentic and intimate images. We see Johnny as we have never seen him” she insisted, while specifying that the realization had been entrusted to William Karel and that she had not imposed anything.