A young girl who was skinned alive, Bambou met Serge Gainsbourg in 1980. At the time, her daily life was
scarred by drugs and memories of the abuse she endured as a child. It was thanks to the man who was nicknamed the man with the head of cabbage that she managed to gain a taste for life and began a career as a model.
Bambou lived for eleven years with Jane Birkin's ex-partner. An idyll which allowed the birth of Lulu Gainsbourg, now 38 years old. After years of silence, Bambou released an autobiographical book in which she returns at length to his relationship with Serge Gainsbourguntil his death in 1991.
Death of Serge Gainsbourg: a relationship against a backdrop of drugs and alcohol
In his work called Step by step in the night (Ed.
Xo), Bambou evokes his difficult childhood in a Vietnamese refugee camp in Lot-et-Garonne but also his youth marked by drugs. “I had a lot of overdoses, comas, but I always came back. Death didn't want me any more than life did. Paradoxically, Serge was a bon vivant”she told our colleagues at Paris
Matchconsidering that the interpreter of Sea, Sex and Sun
had saved her.
For his part, Serge Gainsbourg, 31 years his senior, was entangled in alcohol addiction problems. “I took care of him. I even saved his life three or four times”she confided. “When he drank too much, alone, he would go off the rails. Without news, I called Samu before even arriving at his house and we found him in a pool of bloodhaving smashed his head against his bar or a table”she added.
Death of Serge Gainsbourg: Bambou denies a persistent rumor
If Serge Gainsbourg's life was marked by an addiction to alcohol, the singer did not do drugs. This is what his latest companion says, tooth and nail. “The cops themselves were convinced he was a junkie. All this because he had a heart attack and, at the hospital, they gave him a transfusion.”she explained before continuing her story.
“Shortly after, the police came to our house because a dealer said he had sold us pot. They pulled up his sleeve and saw the mark left on his arm by the transfusion. Their opinion was clear “lamented the one who intends to honor the memory of the man who allowed her to become a happy mother.
