pregnant in secret, Orlando, her brother, tells why she had an abortion

He was her brother, her manager, her confidant. All his life, Orlando never stopped taking care of his sister Yolanda Gigliotti and the artist Dalida. A task that was not necessarily easy. Indeed, if it is not always easy to manage an artist, it is even less so when the latter is tortured by life. Dalida who was in a relationship with Alain Delon had an incandescent voice, but she was also a character. A colorful woman with very clear-cut ideas and values. In fact, his love life was very chaotic.

On the set of C to you, in front of Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, on April 12, Orlando returned to the great moments that marked the existence of his sister. He notably spoke of the time when his great hit, He had just turned 18, is out. A song that Dalida sang a few years after meeting a handsome 18-year-old Roman. He was a student, she was a diva and they had a short and passionate love story. From their love, a pregnancy happened. This future paternity, the student did not want it…

An unspoken secret

Thus, Dalida decided to settle the situation definitively. Indeed, she did not want to impact the life of her young lover. A dramatic ordeal that Orlando revealed on the set of France 5. He confided this: “You know, there were only two people who knew about this story: me and my cousin Rosie. My mother didn’t know it, my brother didn’t know it. She didn’t tell anyone she was pregnant. Even the young man never knew. Maybe he found out later when the book came out. But I tell you: he never knew that Dalida was expecting a child.”

Alone in this delicate period and above all alone in making the decision to terminate her pregnancy, Dalida wanted to take this secret to her grave. “She had made the decision that our mother should not know about it.” He keeps on : “When she left, she whispered to me the things that I could reveal and those that I had no right to say. These were his last wishes. I had to talk about it because her abortion went very badly. She could never be a mother. I had to write it in the book, but no one knew before“. Indeed, Dalida’s abortion damaged her body.

Dalida killed herself on the night of May 2 to 3, 1987. She overdosed on medication. In a few days, it will be 35 years since the singer left us. On this occasion, a box is on sale Dalida – 35 years old already. Orlando, his younger brother, had come to promote it on the set of Anne-Sophie Lemoine.