It has now been six years since Johnny Hallyday died from lung cancer, leaving an immense void in the heart of Laeticia, but also in that of Sébastien Farran, his last manager. In an interview with the magazine Pointthe 53-year-old young man returned to the illness and difficult death of Johnny Hallyday.
“Johnny endured the treatments courageously, without complaining, even when he was in pain. He came out with great sentences, as if he were the Godfather: ‘Be careful of my daughters’, ‘I’m afraid for Laeticia’, ‘Don’t come within 50 meters of her father…'”, he recalls.
“So difficult…”: his manager looks back on Johnny Hallyday’s last tour
Sébastien Farran remembers that Johnny Hallyday did not want to cancel his last tour of Vieilles Canailles in the provinces. “If I don’t do this tour, I will die !”, he exclaimed. “Behind the scenes, Johnny didn’t expect it to be so difficult… But he had a fighter’s attitude. He managed his illness well.”he adds.
“If Laeticia had felt that the tour was a danger to his health, she would have convinced him to stop. He wanted to live and she knew how to make him listen to reason”, continues Johnny Hallyday’s former manager. This is not the only thing that Laeticia knew how to do. Even before her illness, she “always knew how to keep bad people away”. “But the sicker he was, the less the deceivers dared to show themselves…”, says Sébastien Farran.
What Laeticia Hallyday managed to do until her husband’s death
Throughout her illness, Jade and Joy’s mother also managed to “preserve a hyper-family atmosphereeven the night he died”. “She had invited Jean-François Piège and Hélène Darrozeand his friends for dinner… It was very friendly”specifies the producer.
The day Johnny Hallyday died, Sébastian Farran still remembers it. “I left Marnes-la-Coquette at 8 p.m., I was watching a film at home when Jean-François Piège called me around 10 p.m. telling me that it was finished, that Laeticia asked to see me. I got up like a soldier and worked for seven days and nights straight. I was at the Elysée every morning at 6:30 a.m. to organize the national funeral.”
