Serge Gainsbourg manic? The astonishing confession of Jane Birkin

Serge Gainsbourg is the subject of a documentary entitled Gainsbourg a lifetime, broadcast this Thursday, March 31, on France 3. The opportunity to (re) discover the amazing career of the singer. Facing the camera, his relatives, like his daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, but also his former companion Jane Birkin, will testify. The latter remained in a relationship with the one who disappeared thirty years ago. While she was the guest of It’s up to youon March 10, Jane Birkin spoke about her house on rue de Verneuil and revealed a character trait that the public is far from suspecting in the interpreter of Javanese.

According to Charlotte Gainsbourg’s mother, the singer was manic : “You didn’t have to touch anything! […] It was the inside of his head actually, he couldn’t stand the messhe said he would go crazy because there was already a mess in his head”she remembered, as reported by the site Purepeople. A house that has been transformed into a museum today. Visitors will take a leap of thirty years and be immersed in the universe of Serge Gainsbourg: “If there had been thorns around the house at 5 bis rue de Verneuil and no one had touched it since he went to bed, it’s the same effect when you go inside“assured Jane Birkin in the face of Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine and her columnists.

Revelations of an ex of Serge Gainsbourg: “He boozed in the morning and smoked constantly too”

A little less than a year ago, new revelations broke out about Serge Gainsbourg, following the publication of a book entitled he was a goose. His author, a certain Mary who did not wish to reveal his last name, would have had a three-year relationship with the singer. And the latter does not necessarily have a good memory of it: “I quickly realized that Gainsbourg had become Gainsbarre. He drank in the morning and smoked constantly too”she confided.

Loading-widget

Subscribe to the Closermag.fr Newsletter to receive the latest news for free