It is an exclusive documentary which will be broadcast on M6 on December 8, 2022. Entitled Johnny by Laeticia, the rocker’s widow has agreed to show unpublished images of her life with him. Only, not everything will really be revealed.
December 5, 2022 will mark five years since the death of Johnny Hallyday. For the occasion, M6 will pay tribute to him by broadcasting, three days later, a documentary entitled Johnny by Laeticia. He already promises exclusive images of the private life of the rocker given by his widow. Indeed, she gave her consent for this documentary and got involved in it. If fans of the young idol will be able to discover exclusive videos, the director nevertheless assured that not everything was going to be shown. The goal is not to change the image that people have of someone who has been a showman for many years. That is why a sequence has been censored.
“We tried to stay decent. We showed the hospital ward transformed into a make-up room during Les Vieilles Canailles. The image of him managing to get up from the wheelchair with crutches was essential because his daughters applaud him. But the last days when he ate with a pipe in his nose, we threw“, thus confided William Karel assuring that these images would have been too hard to see for his relatives and his public. Despite everything, the latter will not be left out since they will be able to relive the course of Johnny Hallyday from his failure in Las Vegas , to his marriage, through the adoption of his daughters, his family moments and his last days.
Johnny Hallyday wanted to ensure the show until his last breath
Until his last breath, he fought against a terrible lung cancer. Despite his great fatigue and his very worrying state of health, he had wanted to ensure the show until the end. Thus, only a few months before dying, he was standing on the stage to provide the Vieilles Canailles tour. To save money, viewers will be able to discover that he was moving in a wheelchair to the stage. Enough to prove that he never lacked courage.
To promote this exclusive documentary, Jade and Joy’s mother were on the set of DailyMonday, November 28, 2022.”I continue to feed on him, and these events continue to make him live“, she thus declared while in addition to the documentary, there will be an exhibition that she thought and imagined in homage to Johnny, first presented in Brussels, then in Paris in January 2024. “It’s a project worthy of his life, his career, the person he was. It’s like a show that he would have prepared“, explained the one who is today in a relationship with Jalil Lespert. In this exhibition, there will be a large part dedicated to loneliness. “You can’t talk about Johnny without talking about loneliness. We better understand the man, the artist, his descents into hell, his need to destroy himself to find the light. He was a being full of paradoxes. He didn’t like being alone. But, he needed it to hit rock bottom.”