Solène Delinger 4:10 p.m., January 5, 2023, modified at 4:11 p.m., January 5, 2023

Invited on the set of the show "C à vous" on Wednesday January 4 on the occasion of the upcoming broadcast of the documentary "Sheila, tous ces vies-là", the singer returned to her immense career.

She also spoke of a difficult period in her life: when her producer Claude Carrère launched the rumor that she was a man… 

In the early 1960s, Sheila was the subject of a crazy rumor: the newspaper

France Dimanche 

claimed that she was a man.

At the time, the 18-year-old singer was questioned by Gérard de Villiers about her state of health after suffering from cancer in Roanne.

The young woman then told the journalist that she was treating her anemia with a treatment composed of male hormones.

"Claude Carrère hurt me"

It was enough for Gérard de Villiers, with the complicity of Claude Carrère, Sheila's manager, to divert this information and affirm in One of

France Sunday

that Sheila was a man.

A rumor that has deeply marked the singer.

"At first, we can take it for a joke but me, it pursued me for 40 years", reacted the star, invited on the set of

C à vous on

Wednesday January 4 to promote the documentary

Sheila, all these vies-là

, broadcast soon on France 3. Sheila also pointed the finger at the responsibility of her producer Claude Carrère in spreading the rumour. 

"The terrible rumor that said I was a man... Some may take it as a joke, but me, it followed me for 40 years!"@Sheilaofficiel in #CàVouspic.twitter.com/3zLlvhbd8b

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"Humanly, he was toxic, yes. He hurt me and he was the one who made the rumor that I was a man. But afterwards, we both grew up, he's someone one who was very inventive," Sheila points out.

"Afterwards, he was someone who only thought about business," continues the singer. 

Jean-Pierre Foucault defended Sheila on a TV set

Faced with journalist Gérard de Villiers on a television set, Jean-Pierre Foucault had come to the defense of Sheila.

"It made me happy," assured the singer facing Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine.

“I think you always have to be careful about a little thing that looks stupid like that but can take you…”, she concluded.