Sylvie Vartan spoke about the end of Johnny Hallyday's life, their past love, and the way she lived his last moments. She also talks about her role as a grandmother and her desire to get closer to her family.
Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday met in the 1960s, quickly becoming one of the most emblematic couples of the yéyé era. They married in 1965 and had a son, David Hallyday, in 1966. The couple lived a true romantic idyll. Even after their divorce in 1980, they remained close. Nearly seven years after the death of Johnny Hallyday, Sylvie Vartan speaks to our colleagues at Parisian the last moments she shared with the man who was her first great love.
Sylvie Vartan looks back on the last moments of her ex-husband Johnny Hallyday's life: “He didn't look like the person he was when he was younger.“
Sylvie Vartan is still marked by her last moments with Johnny Hallyday, in 2017: “We cannot be at peace. How to be?“. She describes a man weakened by illness, unrecognizable compared to the lively artist she had loved. She confides: “He didn't look like the person he was younger, who he really was. He was tired, not well, sick… It's sad.” She also evokes her great sadness at seeing him weaken: “It's a very sad moment“, she confides, especially since she believes that “things were evolving in a climate that was not what it seemed like“.
Sylvie Vartan, mother of David Hallyday, talks about her role as a grandmother and the desire to be closer to her family
Sylvie Vartan also reveals how much her role as grandmother and great-grandmother is close to her heart. She states, “Mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, there is always 'mother' in it, it's the common denominator. I would say that I am a mother above all.” She talks about her grandson Harrison, son of Ilona Smet, born in 2022, and regrets not seeing him more often: “I rarely see him, alas, I hope to see him much more often, because the years go by.” She is even considering moving to France, in order to enjoy her family more: “Yes, it's possible. But they (his son and grandchildren, editor’s note) all love to come to America. When I say that we might get closer, they tell me 'we don't want it, it's also our house'”.
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