In 1970, Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan were victims of a serious road accident. At the time, some said that the singer was totally disfigured.
On February 20, 1970, the lives of Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan almost changed. David Hallyday’s parents joined Lille from Besançon when they were victims of a serious road accident. In a bend of the RN83 at Roppe, the rocker lost control of his car because of the ice. The vehicle ended up in a ditch. Asleep on the passenger seat, Sylvie Vartan was thrown against the windshield of the DS Pallas driven by her husband. Quickly brought to the hospital, the singers were taken care of. Johnny Hallyday has his nose damaged while rumors are rife about Sylvie Vartan, who some said was totally disfigured.
“We said a lot of things … In particular that I was disfiguredremembered the singer in Un jour, un destin broadcast this Friday, October 14. I was certainly not pretty to see, that’s for sure, but from there to being disfigured… There are still nuances. I didn’t need fifteen operations. (…) To have peace, I had gone back to the United States.” It was in New York that she was operated on. On the waves of RTL a few months ago, she looked back on this accident with great hindsight. “When it happens to you when you’re younger, I think you’re more apt to put up with things, because there’s the youth pushing behind it, confided Sylvie Vartan. There is the strength of youth that is there. When it happens to you at a later age, it’s much more difficult.”
Sylvie Vartan: “I had scars”
“I was so happy to be alive, because I had a child, I had people who loved me, and that was above all the priority. It was to be alive, added the mother of David Hallyday, grateful. Honestly, I recognized myself. I wasn’t so messed up. Well, I had scars, yes, but that was normal. Over time, they faded a bit. In One day, a destiny devoted to their love story, Sylvie Vartan also returned to the ups and downs of her relationship with the Taulier. Despite the difficult times, she keeps a lot of tenderness for Johnny Hallyday. “We were very similar, like brother and sister, we understood the same things, we felt the same emotions”she recalls.
“We understood that we had to be separated, after we found each other, it was never lukewarm. It was always the fury, the fury to livesummarized Sylvie Vartan. We were housed in the same boat, we understood our lives, the demands that the job placed on us. We weren’t victims of routine, to say the least.” After years of love and the birth of a son, the two separated in 1973. “It’s thanks to this job that we got to know each other backstage at the Olympia. After 15 years, it’s also because of this job, in a way, that we part ways”, said Sylvie Vartan. Even divorced, Johnny and Sylvie remained very close. “She was his wife, his mistress, his sister but she was and remained his friendassured the lyricist Michel Mallaury. She was the woman of his life.”