Almost six years after the funeral of his father, David Hallyday open heart on his experience of the event. On the occasion of the release of his autobiography entitled Best album published by Cherche Midi, Johnny Hallyday’s son spoke to Pascal Praud on Europe 1 this Tuesday, November 21. An interview during which the artist with complicated relationships with notoriety returned to this dark December 9, 2017, day of Taulier’s funeral, who died four days earlier. During the exchange, David Hallyday gave his feelings about that day, which was obviously difficult for him, especially since his pain was shared, despite himself, by millions of French people fans of the artist who followed the event live.
On this subject, the son of Johnny Hallyday and singer Sylvie Vartan did not didn’t mince his wordsnot having not coping well with the media coverage around the ceremony: “What’s complicated is when it’s put in the public arena andwe cannot, we will say, collect ourselves quietly, and there are cameras everywhere, that’s… oI feel like I’m being violated somewhere, indicated the one who did not always have an easy relationship with his father, before explaining his point: Because It’s still a very intimate moment., like a birth moreover. The beginning of life, like the end of life, are very intimate things. I can’t see cameras filming our women giving birth. It’s a bit of the same kind of thing for me.” he confided, adding that with the other relatives of the rocker, they had then felt something “very very complicated”.
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David Hallyday: the hatchet buried with Laeticia Hallyday?
After the funeral of the singerLight the fire, media attention on the Hallyday family remained significant because of the quarrel between his widow Laeticia Hallyday and the rocker’s first children, David Hallyday and Laura Smet. If the singer’s son does not didn’t want to come back on this chapter of his life within his autobiography, he did not hold back fromsend a dig which can be interpreted as being towards his former mother-in-law. Without naming her, David Hallyday declared that his father could, at certain times in his life, have been a man “under the influence of people who encouraged him to [le] put aside”. The sign that between David Hallyday and Laeticia Hallyday, peace is perhaps not not yet completely found.
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