A few weeks from the sad anniversary of the death of Johnny Hallyday. Laeticia made heartbreaking secrets. Jade and Joy’s mom spoke of her “impossible mourning”.
The years pass, love is reborn, the girls grow up, but the pain is still present in the heart of Laeticia Hallyday. Almost five years after the death of Johnny, who passed away on December 5, 2017, his widow came out of silence on the airwaves of RTL. This Sunday, September 25, when an exhibition dedicated to the rocker will open its doors, the mother of Jade and Joy will make heartbreaking secrets about her daily life since the disappearance of Johnny Hallyday. “It seems very distant and at the same time so close, confided the companion of Jalil Lespert at the microphone of Let yourself be tempted. Five years is dizzying and at the same time, we had to learn to live without him. The most difficult thing is to continue to live every day without him. Working on projects like this, it nourishes, it allows you to be inhabited by him.”
“He continues to guide us every day”, added Laeticia Hallyday, particularly moved by the evocation of the memory of Johnny. Through this exhibition and the projects that are currently under study, she wants to continue to maintain the memory of the rocker, who died after a long battle with illness. “To bring him back to life is a transcendent experience. To be able to do it for me, to be faithful to what he expected of me, to be faithful to his values, to his artistic work, to what I learned from him. …, continued Laeticia Hallyday at the microphone of RTL. I was lucky that he passed on a lot of things to me. That, too, is also part of this complicated mourning, of this impossible mourning.” Almost five years later, she concluded with a heartbreaking sentence: “We don’t redo our life, we continue it”.
Laeticia Hallyday: “It feels like Johnny is going to be there”
On December 20, a major exhibition devoted to Johnny Hallyday will open in Brussels, which will then move to Paris. For those close to the singer, it is a particularly moving moment. “It looks like Johnny is going to be there, we imagine him sitting on the bed!”, confided the mother of Jade and Joy, present in the Belgian capital. On site, she notably admired the reconstruction of Johnny Hallyday’s teenage bedroom where there are Elvis Presley record covers hanging on the wall, a photo of Brigitte Bardot, a guitar, a record player, trinkets, etc. . “It’s quite upsetting“, added Laeticia Hallyday. On Instagram too, she was delighted that this project on which she had been working for months was finally seeing the light of day.
“I really wanted to continue to bring his memory and his work to life, this project is a way of bringing him back to life, of being closer to him, it’s a journey through the whole story of his life”had written the mother of Jade and Joy Hallyday, delighted that all the facets of Johnny were shown, “the man, his fragility, his sensitivity, his humility, and the excessive artist that he was”. In the columns of Le Parisien, she gave details of this exhibition. “We will enter as we enter one of his concertsconfided Laeticia Hallyday. We will hear him speak and sing, with live sound, and lights made by Dimitri Vassiliu, who lit his last shows. Jean Reno will voice the audio guide. He was one of Johnny’s best friends and one of his most faithful too. He’s Jade’s godfather. I’m very happy that he accepted my proposal.”
Laeticia Hallyday: this memory of Johnny who brought her to tears
In preparing for this meeting, Laeticia Hallyday immersed herself in overwhelming memories. “Johnny put a lot of things in his jacket pockets all the time, lighters, medicine, combs, business cards… Last week, when I was selecting clothes in Los Angeles, I had a emotion when opening this Chrome Heartstold the widow of the idol of young people with our colleagues. I found in the inside pocket a photo of Jade at 3 years old. He had kept it on him, I didn’t know that, nor did Jade. When I told my daughter, in tears, she asked me to let her in.” See you in a few months to discover this exhibition which promises a lot of emotions in Paris.