It is alongside her friend Nathalie, her best friend, that Lara Fabian will meet Ricka young Belgian pianist and singer who will be one of the most important encounters of his life, as the 52-year-old artist reveals in his latest book All, published on September 22 by Libre Expression. In this superb book, offering her readers intoxicating stories and beautiful, very personal and culinary illustrations, she looks back on her romance with him but above all his aborted marriage.
They were “inseparable“for fourteen years. It was by her side that she was to make her great trip to Quebec, the very one that changed her life forever. For almost nine years, Lara Fabian and Rick were going to have a hard time make ends meet. They rowed, and sometimes struggled to “pay the rent“, and “even to eat“. A period that she remembers with great fondness, a period during which she almost got married to Rick. One evening in the 1990s, “Rick asks me to marry“, shares the interpreter of I like you. But this marriage will never happen, as revealed by the one who now shares her life with Gabriel, a magician of Sicilian origin whom she married in June 2013.
The wedding will not happen
Because finally Rick retracts. “The one I’ve preferred to hide so far is the one where Rick will explain to me a few days after the show that the wedding will not take placeshe says in the book. The situation is still precarious, he says, we have to focus on my career.” “The wedding will not happen“, shares Lara Fabian with her readers. She nevertheless wishes to clarify that on Rick’s side, this does not change the story, after all he loves her. “I blame the blow, can we read. But very quickly, I trust his instincts, and I tell myself that I will live what there is to live in real time..” And she excuses him, ultimately being realistic about their situation at that time.”In his defense, it is true that, very often at that time, we wondered how we would manage to buy groceries“, she pointed out in All.