For nearly twenty years, Serge Lama lived a love story with Michèle Chauvier. The opportunity to learn more about the singer’s first wife, who died on October 25, 2016.
A drama from which he is struggling to recover… Tuesday, October 25, 2022, Serge Lama lost his wife, Michèle Chauvier, following a stroke at the age of 71. It was in 1969 that the couple met through a mutual friend. Both married at that time, they had then had a hidden relationship for two years, before starting a family on September 23, 1981 and saying ‘yes’ to each other on June 17, 1991. For many years, they were separated, but remained married. Wednesday, November 2, 2016, for Paris Match, the singer had confided with emotion: “I had met Michèle in 1969, in Chamonix, through a friend. My crush on her was immediate, even if she was as discreet and shy as I was myself exuberant at the time. Because she was not free, our story only really began in 1971.“Assuring that Michèle Chauvier was”everything” for him, he had specified: “She was an exceptional woman, turned towards others and always seeking to please.“
Upset, Serge Lama explained: “She was my wife, my mother and my best friend. I had also entrusted him with all the material management of my life, an area of which I know nothing. Today, I’m all the more distraught because I always thought I’d leave first.“Admiring Michèle Chauvier, the singer added:”Michèle was an independent, almost wild person, who adored her country house, her animals and her trees, to which she spoke. It is true that, for fifteen years, our love had been transformed into tenderness; but it was out of the question to divorce, as we valued our unbreakable bond. We had lunch together at least once a week and continued to share weekends, birthdays, Christmas and all family events.“A few weeks later, for the Parisian, he had slipped:”She never failed, unlike me who was really a bit of a guy… an artist. She knew how to manage all that and if I am what I am today, it’s really a lot thanks to her.“
Serge Lama: “For me, she was, somewhere, a saint”
After assuring that his wife always did things for others, the singer had slipped: “She was a princess, she was a goddess. For me, she was, somewhere, a saint. She was truly unique.“Wednesday, March 28, 2018, for Gala, he had specified:”What linked us for 46 years is difficult to explain, we never lived together, but it was a total, absolute complicity.“More recently, it was Monday December 5, 2022 that Serge Lama had mentioned Michèle Chauvier in an interview with Télé Star. While he had not been faithful, the latter had declared: “We had established a modus vivendi with Michèle. I’m sorry I probably made him sad. But I have been lucky in my sex and love life.“