Solène Delinger 3:35 p.m., December 05, 2022
Five years ago, Johnny Hallyday disappeared, after several years of fighting illness.
To celebrate the memory of her husband, Laeticia entrusted a director with more than 700 hours of unpublished and personal archives to feed the documentary "Johnny by Laeticia", broadcast on Thursday December 8 on M6.
The mother of Jade and Joy evokes without detour the darkest parts of the rocker…
This Monday, December 5 is a special day for the family and all fans of Johnny Hallyday: five years ago to the day, in 2017, the rocker breathed his last, after several years of fighting against illness.
His wife Laeticia Hallyday continues to maintain his memory by carrying out projects in tribute to the rocker: an exceptional exhibition, thought and imagined by the widow of Taulier, will be presented in Brussels this year, then in Paris in January 2024.
"She knew it wouldn't be a complacent portrait"
And, the mother of Jade and Joy also gathered more than 700 hours of personal archives for the production of the documentary
Johnny by Laeticia,
broadcast Thursday, December 8 on M6.
In this film retracing the 23 years of common life of the couple, Laeticia obviously pours out on the good times spent with the one she called “her man”, the widow of Taulier does not evade periods of crisis.
Because living with Johnny was far from simple.
She knew from the start that it would not be a complacent portrait or a film glorifying Johnny Hallyday.
She knew that we were going to approach the infidelity as well as those mornings when he took cocaine, when he sank into alcohol and that he became violent“, thus explained William Karel,
Tele-Leisure.
“I lived his demons on a daily basis”
In
Johnny by Laeticia
, Laeticia Hallyday thus confides without filter on the dark parts of her husband.
"Johnny had already told me about these complicated moments in his life, his addictions to drugs and alcohol. I knew and I lived it! I lived his daily demons, his descents into hell, the nights without sleep”, she explains, as reported by our colleagues from
Télé-Loisirs,
who were able to see the documentary in preview.
Laeticia assures that she did not recognize her husband when he lived these moments of darkness.
"Johnny was no longer the same man. He was someone different, inhabited by demons that made him aggressive and violent. I knew the excesses, I knew the influence that alcohol and drugs had on him. Nights where they were destroying each other", details Laeticia, who did not wish to say more about the violence of her husband.