Bambou releases an autobiography entitled Step by step in the night. She talks about her childhood, her life journey and her meeting with Serge Gainsbourg, but also a moving memory of Catherine Deneuve.
Caroline Paulus, alias Bambou, published, at the age of 65, a poignant autobiography entitled Step by step in the night. Serge Gainsbourg's last companion, mother of his son Lulu and with whom he lived from 1980 to his death in 1991, comes out of silence for good. The one who owes this book idea to her friend Etienne Daho, who pushed her to write her truth – “I have often been asked to write a book but they always wanted me to write an autobiography on Serge and I didn't want to do that, and it wasn't the time“, Bambou confided to Léa Salamé at the microphone of France Inter this Tuesday, November 5 – looked back on his childhood, his meeting with Serge Gainsbourg and his relationship with his clan, for our colleagues from Parisian but also for the France Info morning show, at the start of the week. In the midst of all these memories, Bambou highlighted that of a benevolent Catherine Deneuve who, during a social meal during which the young model was humiliated by show business, would have consoled her.
“There was contempt, racism“: Bambou recounts the derogatory remarks made by the world of showbiz towards him
Bambou, who believes that she and Serge Gainsbourg have “mutually saved“, evokes, in her book but also in these two interviews, the odious attitude of public figures towards her. “There was contempt, racism. Serge had told everyone that I was on drugs, while everyone at our table was on drugs… I remained the junkie and even though I stopped, it didn't change anything. They didn't believe me. And then they said that I was with Serge because I was yellow, out of interest. You would be surprised if I gave names“can we read in The Parisian. “Avalanche of insults disguised as witticisms. Jokes and disgusting suggestions, no limits on that either; For them, I'm just a cameo bitch, one more who wants to take advantage of Serge. Contempt and sneers by the ton“, declares Léa Salamé, quoting, on France Inter, an extract from Bambou's book.
“They're just idiots“: Bambou remembers the support of Catherine Deneuve at the time when she was dating Serge Gainsbourg
Bambou also recounts this day when, collapsed, she went to the toilet to cry and Catherine Deneuve joined her there to comfort her: “She told me 'Come back, they're just idiots, don't listen to them'. And I took a little time and I went back but… They said to themselves that I was much younger and I was non-existent for them“. “It really touched me (…) It was really nice of him“, she adds in the pages of Parisian.
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