"It was a form of silent suicide": Laeticia Hallyday confides in her tumultuous relationship with Johnny

Solène Delinger 11:16 a.m., November 29, 2022

Laeticia Hallyday continues to honor Johnny's memory, five years after the rocker's death.

The widow of Taulier was on the set of 

 Monday November 28 to talk about a documentary broadcast on December 8 on M6 and the exhibition * that she thought and imagined in tribute to Johnny, which will first be presented in Brussels, then in Paris in January 2023. 

"You can't talk about Johnny without talking about loneliness"

"I continue to feed on him, and these events continue to make him live", begins by explaining Laeticia Hallyday facing Yann Barthès.

Jade and Joy's mother wanted the exhibition to reflect the "extraordinary" artist Johnny was.

The retrospective, which explores the intimacy of the rocker, extends over 3,000m2 and is shaped like a guitar.

"It's a project worthy of his life, his career, the person he was. It's like a show he would have prepared", details Laeticia.

A whole section of the exhibition is devoted to loneliness, a feeling that Johnny hated but that he paradoxically needed to experience in order to suffer and better rebuild himself.

"We can't talk about Johnny without talking about loneliness. We understand better 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." 

“You can't talk about Johnny without talking about loneliness.

There are images of him in complicated periods of his life.

We understand a little more the man, the artist.

Laeticia

Hallyday reveals with emotion behind the scenes of the exhibition dedicated to Johnny Hallyday #Quotidienpic.twitter.com/FjK5ExHpwU

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"We both saved each other"

How did Johnny get out of his depressive states?

How did he climb the slope?

"I helped him a lot", assures Laeticia who tried "not to judge the harm he was doing to himself and to others".

Johnny's suffering affected him deeply.

But she was also tormented.

"I was as tortured as him," she confides to Yann Barthès.

"He saved me, we both saved each other. We didn't want to live, it was a form of silent suicide, that's why we understood each other. With such a age difference, our meeting was unlikely". 

Together, Johnny and Laeticia have found a balance, which has been strengthened thanks to the arrival of Jade and Joy in their life.

According to Laeticia, the adoption of the two girls repaired Johnny.

"He always suffered from the abandonment of his parents, it repaired him, he made peace with certain demons", explains the widow of the rocker. 

*The Johnny exhibition will be held in Brussels from December 20, 2022 to June 30, 2023. It will arrive in Paris, Porte de Versailles from January 2024.