It all started in 1961, at a dinner organized by Charles Aznavour. Roger Vadim is then looking for the one who will respond to his new muse, a young actress who begins with the name of Catherine Deneuve. It's decided, it will be Johnny Hallyday. The two young men, aged 18, then start filming Sophie, do we read in the pages of Paris Match. "Johnny fell in love with the beautiful Catherine. A platonic, languorous love consumed her senses. An emotion ignited his face. A passion settled in the heart of the soul.", confides Christian Blondieau, father of Adeline, to the magazine."Whenever Johnny leaves a few feathers in a disastrous love story, he knocks on the door of Catherine's heart", adds the man who was once the rocker's stepfather.
The mysterious Lady L
In his book, Lady Lucille, Gilles Lhote, friend and biographer of Johnny Hallyday, tells us more about what he calls "loving friendship"which will last 60 years."IThey were sort of twins, always there for each other in the event of hard knocks", he reveals. A bond that the two protagonists have always kept secret. Until a mysterious wreath of flowers signed "Lady L" makes its appearance on the tomb of the Taulier. It was this episode that would have made Gilles Lhote want to finally reveal "one of the most beautiful stories that'[he] know, between two of the biggest French stars. " does he tell the Parisian. However, when our colleagues asked him if he thought it useful to warn the main interested party or the other women who had been part of the singer's life before publishing his book, the former editor-in-chief of VSD bluntly replies: "I haven't spoken to anyone, I haven't warned anyone. I drooled over it to write it, spent time checking each piece of information, weighed each word. We'll see the reactions ". For the moment, neither Catherine Deneuve nor Laeticia Hallyday have spoken on this revelation.
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