His friendship with Jean-Louis Aubert, the tensions within Telephone, his drug problems, his love stories… In his autobiography, Louis Bertignac evades nothing.
What made you want to tell your story through a book?
LOUIS BERTIGNAC: I’ve been talking about it for a while now. I wanted to wait because my life is not over. It is Guy Carlier which convinced me.
You talk about the drug that has accompanied you for a long time. Are sex, drugs and rock’n’roll really inseparable?
A lot of people who gravitated to rock were getting high. I was afraid of looking stupid to refuse and I took it. The only thing I liked was the hero. I was not like the others, a small dose was enough for me. It calmed me down. Today, of course, I am. I am a coward. That’s why I stopped.
It was long though, right?
I started doing this stuff around 18 and quit at 30. It took me eight years to get there. I wanted to be a normal guy, not a god, and live fifty years longer. I made the right decision.
You return to the tensions in the Telephone group between Corine, the bassist, your ex-girlfriend, and Jean-Louis Aubert. What were they due to?
To their character. She didn’t accept that he wasn’t the same guy in life and on stage. Me, I thought it was great to be, like him, able to unite the crowd.
“We are like an old couple who will no longer be surprised”, you write about your relationship with Jean-Louis Aubert. A hard fact?
A little but we still love each other. We were already friends before Telephone. There is a great story that we have built together.
You don’t say anything unpleasant but were you afraid of reactions?
I hope that neither the members of Telephone nor Carl (Bruni, editor’s note) will not take things badly. Anyway, I don’t want to hurt anyone. It is not the goal. I don’t want to settle any account. I just told my life sincerely.
You say that Carla Bruni had her nose redone, but you are also very grateful to her for welcoming you to Cap Nègre with Nicolas Sarkozy when you were very sad about your separation from the mother of your two eldest daughters (Lola, 18 and Lili, 15 years old, editor’s note)…
I felt like I was going to lose my daughters forever, the most precious thing I had ever done, more important than music. They were only 4 and 1 year old. I was at the bottom of the hole. She and Nicolas Sarkozy were really nice, even imperial. Well, they wanted me to exercise. After twenty minutes, I couldn’t take it anymore!
Very shortly afterwards, you met Laëtitia, the mother of your son, Jack, 5 years old!
She was the niece of one of the guys who was always at my shows. She had filmed one at my request. I found her cute. I wrote to her that I would like to see her again and it went royally well. It still lasts.
*Louis Bertignac, nice little story, Looking for noon editor
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