Laeticia Hallyday reveals her truth about the secret affair between Johnny and Catherine Deneuve: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

On May 28, 2020, Gilles Lhote, biographer of Johnny Hallyday, published his book Lady Lucille. The rocker's friend then revealed the secrets of his secret affair with Catherine Deneuve, the woman behind the nickname that gave birth to the famous title of Taulier. Since then, rumors about this well-kept romance have been making headlines. Sylvie Vartan would have been dumped by Johnny because of Catherine Deneuve… Bernard Montiel also claims that they had “a passion". Catherine Deneuve even reportedly saved him in secret after a suicide attempt. And she declared herself to have had "more than affection " for him. But according to Laeticia Hallyday, the fourth and last wife of the youth idol, all these revelations are false. In a long interview with Paris Match, on newsstands Wednesday July 15, 2020, the widow of Johnny Hallyday wanted to deny these rumors.

Laeticia Hallyday “betrayed” by Paris Match

Because on June 4, the magazine published on the front page: “Revelation over a thunderbolt that lasted fifty years ”. Cover that Laeticia Hallyday did not appreciate at all. “The coverage of Paris Match on Johnny and Deneuve really hurt me. We rewrote their lives, their friendship. I took it as a betrayal, she said before clearly expressing her dissatisfaction to our colleagues: “Match, for Johnny, it was family, your magazine has been with him all his life. How could you give credit to this invented story? ” Jade and Joy's mother says: “Between him and Deneuve, there was an adventure fifty years ago, on the set of a film. The rest are inventions. ” Indeed, the two celebrities had a brief affair on the set of The Parisiennes in 1961. And for the next half century, they stayed very close.

“Johnny didn't even have his phone number”

But more than Paris Match again, these are the words of Gilles Lhote who particularly revolted the wife of the Taulier. She "refuses ” moreover to read his work. “I don't want to get angry ”, she explains. “Whoever got a book out of it did it for profit only. It's a shame, she laments to the magazine before hammering again that he "there has never been a secret love in Johnny’s life. ” Laeticia Hallyday must recognize it all the same:Catherine Deneuve counted for him. ” But for her, "She was a friend" and nothing more. "When she came to her birthdays, I was the one who invited her. Johnny didn't even have his number!, she says. Surprising revelations, all the more when we know that, out of jealousy, Laeticia Hallyday had issued an ultimatum to her husband because of Catherine Deneuve…

As “guardian of [her] husband's work ”, Laeticia Hallyday cannot however “prevent people from writing books, from doing concerts or pretending to be Johnny Hallyday. “But I demand a minimum: respect ”, she finally concluded. A spade clearly addressed to Jean-Baptiste Guégan, the vocal double of Johnny Hallyday…

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