Thursday, March 18, 2021, Yann Barthès received in Daily Sheila. Invited to promote her new album Coming from elsewhere, the singer confided in her title entitled Amber Horse. A piece that the 75-year-old artist dedicated to her son Ludovic Chancel, who died in 2017. A moment of emotion during which she discovered photos of the young man on the screen with her track in the background. "had a hard time singing". "It's not obvious. But I was at the end and I did it for him. I know he's up there and he hears.", she added with tears in her eyes.
To write it, she called on Christian Siméon, "who is a basic playwright" because "I needed it to be something beyond a song". A song that allowed him to "put Ludovic back in the spotlight", explained the icon of the yéyé years. Before getting annoyed: "We tell anything and everything, we invent lives for it. Ludovic is a man who did bullshit, like a lot of others ". Believing "that today" her late son "deserves to be left in the air", she said: "That we stop vilifying on him because it makes me hysterical".
Did Sheila throw a spade at Sylvie Ortega?
A rant that the interpreter of cult titles School is out, You guys, I'll never forget you and The Three Kings a concluded with virulence: "It has to go up and take it (the song, editor's note). The following ? Just shut your mouths". A message certainly intended for Sylvie Ortega who continues to attack her after the death of the one she says is her husband. In his book Between Ocean and Sea (released in 2018), the former model reconsidered her relationship with Ludovic Chancel, but also that with her stepmother whom she accuses of having killed her companion.
Charges that prompted Sheila to sue her for "defamation". An interim relief she lost. "The summary judge of the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance held that my son's last companion could accuse me freely and with impunity of having ignored her calls for help ". And to add: "The judge considers that to be described 'as a' bad mother ', even if that constitutes a difficult assessment for me, would not therefore be defamatory. It is not difficult to live, it is unlivable", she lamented on her Facebook account.
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