Sylvie Vartan talks about the singer’s infidelities

At last ! The event series Johnny by Johnny will be available on Tuesday March 29, 2022 to the delight of the artist’s fans. Told by the rocker himself, this intimate series will return to the highlights of the career and personal life of Johnny Hallyday. From his concerts to his love stories, viewers will be able to discover the singer as they have never seen him before! For the most impatient, we immersed ourselves in the comments made by Sylvie Vartan to the attention of her ex-spouse, during her career. Who better than a woman who rubbed shoulders with him to describe Johnny Hallyday? The singer returned to her love story and the difficulties encountered with the rocker. And for good reason, Sylvie Vartan, then 17 years old at the time, was far from imagining that the meeting with the artist would mark her story forever.

Sylvie Vartan has often confided in the media about her relationship with Johnny Hallyday. A relationship that can be associated with the expression “for better or for worse”. Indeed, the rocker was known to be a womanizer. However, this never seems to have bothered the interpreter of the hit “Like a boy”. “It’s not trifles, junk from visiting girls that mattered to me”, she said in an interview with TV Star in May 2021. Especially since she went on to say that she had ” never been jealous. Despite Johnny’s excesses, the singer assumed the situation and explained that the relationship was very strong. So much so that she would have liked to start a big family with the icon.

The regrets of Sylvie Vartan

Symbol of their couple, the love story between the two singers will give birth to a single child, David, on August 14, 1966. However, Sylvie Vartan would have liked to expand the family. Unfortunately, in 1974, when the singer was pregnant, the lovebirds faced a tragic situation: the loss of their second child. Following this event, Johnny Hallyday was no longer the same man. Overwhelmed, he moved away little by little. “Johnny was distant, unconcerned, out of step with the situation which seemed to be close to his heart a few months earlier”wrote the biographers Christian and Éric Cazalot in Sylvie Vartan. The whirlwind of a lifethe work dedicated to the singer.

This turnaround was very difficult to take for Sylvie Vartan who would have liked to expand the family. “I would have liked to have a second child with him […]. In an ideal existence, I would have had at least four children with him.revealed Sylvie Vartan in an interview with Paris Match September 30, 2021. She then added: “I don’t know if that would have changed the end of our story. Life meant that we still stayed together for twenty years, from 1961 to 1981. Life decided otherwise. » One thing is certain, Johnny Hallyday did not leave none of her indifferent companions.