In an interview with Télé Star, the former driver of Johnny Hallyday was not kind to Laeticia. According to him, the young idol’s widow prevented him from seeing his elders, David Hallyday and Laura Smet.
“I had to see my father for 5-6 years before his death several times in secret, and it was not easy, neither for him nor for me”. On the airwaves of RTL after the death of Johnny Hallyday, Laura Smet was sorry not to have been able to spend as much time as she would have liked with her father. According to the young idol’s eldest daughter, it was Laeticia Hallyday who prevented her from seeing him. Charges denied as a whole by the widow of Johnny Hallyday, but confirmed by the ex-driver of the rocker. On the occasion of the release of his book Everyone called him JohnnyPatrick Roussel confided in the columns of TV Star…and was not kind to Jade and Joy’s mother. According to him, Johnny and Laeticia did not live in a fairy tale, “far from there”.
“It happened to Laeticia to leave him, but she came back. Johnny was as difficult to live with as to leave. And then she ended up finding her place”, he remembered with our colleagues. Patrick Roussel assures that the widow of Johnny Hallyday has “cleaned up” in his dating for the “replace with friends of hers or mutual friends”including in his relations with his elders. “He already didn’t see much. David and Laura, but Laeticia reinforced the splitsummarizes the former driver of Johnny Hallyday. David was lucky to be raised by his stepfather, but Laura was very fragile.” Long close to the actress, Patrick Roussel spoke to her “from his father and it allowed him to enter a little into his life”. “Laeticia was not aware”he says in the columns of Télé Star.
Laeticia Hallyday “did everything to exclude” Laura and David
According to the former relative of Johnny Hallyday, Laeticia “did everything to exclude” Laura Smet and David Hallyday from the life of her husband. “Johnny had to hide to see his daughter, he quietly helped her when she had problems”, remembered Patrick Roussel, while acknowledging “that he did not do what was necessary to keep a relationship with his first children”. According to him, if Johnny Hallyday let Laeticia clean up his life but also his family, it’s because he “didn’t want to be bothered”. After waging a merciless legal war, the elders of Johnny Hallyday settled their accounts with Laeticia Hallyday in court. “Time does its work. I do not despair of having a sign of him and his sisterasked the widow of the Taulier. Let them reconnect with my daughters. With their sisters.”