As part of the promotion of his new album, baptized From elsewhere, Sheila was the guest of Michel Drucker on the famous red sofa of Roll on Sunday Sunday 25 April 2021 on France 2. The one who saw her life be affected by a terrible rumor claiming that she was in fact a man once again returned to this episode in front of the host, who had emerged for the occasion from an old interview with the singer’s mother carried out in 1993. “It’s a horror. I’m sure even now there are people who doubt,” Micheline Chancel said at the time. For her part, Sheila could not hide her emotion on the set after seeing this interview between Michel Drucker and his mother.
“My mom” she notably murmured with tenderness. Subsequently, the singer, who revealed on the set of Children of TV his desire to participate in Koh Lanta, spoke about his former manager, Claude Carrère, who was at the origin of this famous rumor with Gérard de Villiers. When Sheila had called her manager to account, because she was panicking about the consequences of this rumor on her life, the latter had replied: “As long as we talk about you, it’s good.” “There are people they want money and it makes you do anything, we forget the human, what is interesting is how much it brings in,” explained the icon of the yéyé years, which was recently used by Jean Castex to promote the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Sheila: “My mother, my parents, they lost their lives too”
“What I find interesting in what I just saw beyond seeing my mom again is that her expression, and what she really describes is what I am describing, it eats you a life, my mother, my parents they lost their lives too, ” Sheila added. “Did it destroy them? ” Michel Drucker then asked him. “Yes all because their daughter is Sheila,” thus concluded the mother of the late Ludovic Chancel, who decided to dedicate a song to this famous rumor in his last album.
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