In 1974, Sylvie Vartan announced that she was pregnant with Johnny Hallyday for the second time after David’s arrival. A happy event that will give way to drama with the loss of this baby. In the columns of Paris Match, the singer returned to this tragic episode in her life.
At the height of her 77 years, Sylvie Vartan released her 50th album entitled Thanks for looking on October 1, 2021 and will begin a tour of the theaters ten days later, to celebrate his 60-year career. On this occasion, the iconic singer agreed to confide in the columns of Paris Match. She mentioned in particular his love story with Johnny Hallyday, of which she was the first wife, but also the second baby that they were about to have together before she lost him.
Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday, it is above all a passionate love story which will have lasted no less than 20 years. The two singers met in December 1961 at the Olympia in Paris, united on April 12, 1965 and welcomed their first child, David, on August 14, 1966. Eight years later, the couple announced to the press expect a second child, happiness will be short-lived: Sylvie Vartan will subsequently have a miscarriage.
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A memory that remains painful many years later: “I would have liked to have a second child with him. Life has decided otherwise. I don’t know if that would have changed the end of our story …“, she confided to Paris Match. She will then come back to their tumultuous relationship and what ended up separating the mythical couple by explaining: “The music cemented our couple then separated us. Because we were far too often. And that neither he nor I gave up our careers in favor of our private life. We were still two strong heads “.
It is finally two decades after the start of their love story that Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday will end their relationship: “Life made us stay anyway twenty years together, from 1961 to 1981 “, declares the latter.
A divorce that will not prevent them from remain accomplices until the death of the French rock legend. “We may have been separated for thirty years, i knew johnny was there. Now, I miss him“said Sylvie Vartan. “In an ideal existence, I would have had at least four children with him“, she also said during this interview.
Today in a relationship with Tony Scotti – her life partner for almost 40 years – Sylvie Vartan is swimming in happiness.
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