In the press release published by the daughters of Jane Birkin following her death on July 16, a sentence immediately cast doubt on the fact that the singer and actress could have ended her life.
Jane Birkin left us. The singer and actress of British origin died on Sunday July 16 at her Parisian home in the 7th arrondissement of the capital, of natural causes, we learned the next day. It was also on Monday July 17 that her two daughters still alive chose to break the silence and speak out about this disappearance, through a statement subject to interpretation. In effect, Charlotte Gainsbourg And Lou Doillon had made it known that “for a few days” Jane Birkin “walked again” and that she was “motivated to reschedule his Olympia” canceled earlier this year, like several other concerts due to his fragile health.
In the same press release, the two artists recalled that their mother had long suffered from leukemia and that she had suffered a stroke in 2001, speaking of her “fierce battle” against disease. But a last sentence quickly gave way to doubt as to Jane Birkin’s last wishes. “This first evening alone will have been the last. She had decided it” could we read. The interpreter of Di doo dah would she have wanted to end her life? No way ! This is what his entourage quickly replied.
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No implied according to relatives of Jane Birkin
In effect, RTL contacted Jane Birkin’s relatives to sweep away nascent doubts on social networks, to read the comments posted in number once the message of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon online. They immediately made it clear that there was no “no implied in the last sentence of the press release”, according to journalist Steven Bellery on Twitter. A very clear focus which comes as the death of Jane Birkin shines the spotlight on her career and her life, she who has faced several tragedies like the death of his eldest daughter Kate Barryfruit of his love with his first companion the composer John Barry.
In 2013, when Jane Birkin was diagnosed with a recurrence of her leukemia the same year, the then 47-year-old photographer fell from the fourth floor of her Paris apartment. Some time later, the thesis of suicide was relayed… Jane Birkin had expressed herself on this subject, in music, through the song Cigarettes (2020). Three years earlier, Charlotte Gainsbourg unveiled the electronic bass title kate. “Trained in alcohol / Without him consoling you, lost forever / You swam the river” she sang then…
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