A portrait rich in archive images and revelations. This Sunday, October 27, 2024, France 2 viewers were able to discover an 8:30 p.m. Sunday edition, entirely devoted to the artist Line Renaud. At 96 years old, the former magazine leader returned with Laurent Delahousse to many aspects of her extraordinary life. Starting with his very modest childhood in the North, his arrival in Paris, then his meeting with Loulou Gasté who would become the love of his life and launch his career.
It was he who propelled her into the world of music hall, at the Casino de Paris. In this legendary room, she will one day receive a visit from Elvis Presley. “There was ONE Elvis concert in Paris, it’s in my dressing room!” exclaimed Line Renaud when she saw the images again. From 1963, she performed in Las Vegas, where she also had the opportunity to meet the biggest stars. However, everything is not rosy, especially when Loulou Gasté has to return to Paris. “I was alone for almost a year, I was so down…” she remembered.
Confidences without taboo, which were praised by Internet users
It was during this period that she began a parallel love affair with Nate Jacobson, first boss of Caesars Palace. An extra-marital relationship completely assumed by Line Renaud: “you can love twice, I guarantee it, you can love twice in the same way, that is to say that I was madly in love with Nate Jacobson, and so was he , but suddenly I was told that Loulou had a cold in Paris and I was taking the plane,” she confided to Laurent Delahousse. And to conclude all the same about the first to arrive: “The love of my life is Loulou, until the last day…”.
Video. Line Renaud reveals why she never started her life again after the departure of Loulou Gasté
From this man, however, she would never have a child, although she became pregnant by him in 1948. “I was 18 years old and Loulou (editor's note: who was 20 years older than her) did not want to 'child. And I wasn’t yet sufficiently established in Loulou’s life to impose on him.” The young woman then underwent a clandestine, high-risk abortion, which seems to have since been erased from her memory: “All I remember is that everything is black. We went up a completely black staircase. I am arrived in front of a woman. She came with two knitting needles. She pierced.
At the end of the interview, Laurent Delahousse addressed another taboo subject: that of the end of life. The one who is Godmother of the Association for the Right to Die with Dignity has made no secret of her convictions on this subject: “I think that when we know that there is nothing more to be done, that it's a matter of months, and it will be months of suffering, of pain, so go ahead. A philosophy that she intends to apply to herself: “I will leave. Why suffer two more months when we know that we can stop this? When it gets to that point with me, I will ask to leave, that is. let me go,” she said, calling for a law on this subject.
On the social network X, many Internet users were keen to congratulate Laurent Delahousse and his teams for the quality of this interview. Many also expressed their affection for Line Renaud, described as a “beautiful person”, a “woman of solid gold”, “touching and humble”.
