Nicoletta, the icon of French song, opened her heart during her moving appearance on the set of Daily, Monday April 8, 2024, a few days before celebrating his 80th birthday: April 11. Between moving memories and poignant revelations, she shared her story of harassment. “It was quite painful when I was a child. We talk a lot about bullying. We get bullied for nothing. I was bullied a lot as a little girl”, she assured on the set of the show. The singer thus returned alongside Yann Barthès to her tormented childhood, evoking the mockery she was subjected to at school due to her mother’s disability. “We don’t play with you, your mother is crazy”, some classmates told him. Despite the pain, she fondly remembered her mother, a woman “loving and special”. “She could neither read nor writebut little by little, over the years, I began to replace his mother a little and I tried to teach him to read and write and I managed to get him to copy.”, she confided on TMC, evoking the precious moments when she shared her knowledge with her mother. During an interview given to Parisian in April 2021, Nicoletta shared about herself: “My mother, Jeanne, suffered from mental retardation and my father, her childhood friend, abused her innocence during a July 14 ball.”
Nicoletta: “I wanted to be near her”
The singer of Mamy Blue, a tribute to her mother, also evoked the death of the latter, when Nicoletta was only 20 years old. Overwhelmed by grief, she even attempted to end her life. “I wanted to be near her”she confessed, describing her suicide attempt and the disturbing coma experience that followed. “I remember that the near death experience, I didn’t talk about it for years, it didn’t happen. I was a little crazy”, she said. And to add, not without emotion: “I woke up in a hospital bed, the spell was broken. The good Lord didn’t want me.” Despite the trials, Nicoletta was able to transform her pain into a source of inspiration through her music. “He was truly someone special in the truest sense of the word”she concluded, talking about her mother.