Laeticia Hallyday is back in France for the first time since the death of Johnny. Coming to "wear" the disc and not to promote it, she spent a lot of time at RTL's microphone. On the last few months of Johnny's life, the legal battle around inheritance, the album and his plans to perpetuate the image of the singer.
She had not been back in France since the death of Johnny Hallyday ten months ago. Laeticia Hallyday arrived in the house of Marne-la-Coquette with her two daughters, the day that came out the posthumous album of Johnny. "It's very difficult to come back to France for the first time without him; it's a vertiginous trip " she confided to the microphone of Marc-Olivier Fogiel on RTL. "This house -Marne-la-Coquette, is full of memories , those of the past few months have been nothing but despair, anguish and fears.This return I feared terribly.My heart was bound to my man, my life is desperately empty without him .
The title track of the album, his favorite
For an hour and a half, Johnny's wife first spoke about the album, " My country is love," which has already sold more than 300,000 copies, which she admits to having "A lot of trouble to listen. And at the same time he is so alive, he is so alive, I find courage and at the same time it brings me back to the sad reality of life without him. "
Among the titles that make up this album, it is precisely the song that bears the name of the album that Laeticia prefers. " I know her by heart and then I can listen to her in a loop because she is happy, it's him, it's her fury to live, and then it's love. the engine of his life ".
"Johnny felt that David and Laura were protected, he spoiled them"
The legal battle with David and Laura over inheritance was, of course, at the heart of the conversation. According to her, if Johnny dismissed his first two children from his inheritance, it was because he "felt that David and Laura were protected, that he gave them important donations, that he spoiled them, that he they still had their mother . Johnny wanted to "protect his two little girls," says Laeticia again; "It was a cry of love for Jade and Joy (...) His last wishes were that they do not know the misery he had known, the pain, the fear of tomorrow, that was his will. It was love .
If Laeticia Hallyday is in France, "it's not to promote the album, it's not my role, but to wear it. It's just a must to do it, to give the best of what they gave us during the preparation of this album. She is also there to perpetuate her husband's legacy, including the launch of a museum and music school, "projects dear to heart" to Johnny. She mentioned the idea of creating a museum, and also a music school, but without giving any details about their design, the planned locations or possible deadlines: "I want to continue to do so live, continue to live his art, his passion ... A museum. (...) We have a lot of projects with all his team. A museum, a music school ... Projects that were important to him during his lifetime. We will try to build this music school. It was her dream, this music school , "she says only in this interview.
Sylvie Vartan: "I do not have the heart to listen to this disc"
For her part, Sylvie Vartan, interviewed Saturday morning on Europe 1, says she does not want to listen to the new record of the rocker she liked: "Honestly, I do not have the heart to listen to this record because I'm famous Johnny alive and I do not listen to his songs like everyone else. I am afraid to detect in his voice a certain distress. I'm not ready to do it, I need to sing it alive . " "I'll do it more quietly when the noise and fury subside," she adds. On the conflict between the legacy of singer Laeticia and the first children of Johnny, Laura Smet and David Hallyday, Sylvie Vartan "prefers not to talk about it" . "I'm out of this," she slices.