In the columns of Paris MatchBambou, the ex-partner of Serge Gainsbourg, opened up about her relatives who tried to extract money from her when they learned of her relationship with the singer.
In recent days, Bamboo regularly speaks in the media to talk about his current affairs. 33 years after the disappearance of Serge Gasinbourg, who shared her life for ten years, she returns with the publication of her autobiographical book entitled Step by step in the nightpublished this Thursday, November 7. A work in which Bambou, real name Caroline Paulus, evokes in detail her love story with the singer whom she accompanied until her last breath. An autobiography that ends when his couple is separated by death. “After 1991, there is much less to talk about”she specifies in the columns of Paris Match.
Bambou had a terrible childhood in foster care
It was at the beginning of the eighties that Bambou met Serge Gasinbourg during an evening in the nightclub at the Élysées-Matignon, in Paris. Quickly after their meeting, the couple became inseparable until their death, around ten years later. Furthermore, the model reveals that her family wanted to take advantage of the fact that she fell in love with a singer who had a lot of money. Indeed, throughout her childhood, Bambou experienced hell in the foster family with whom she lived, so much so that she left them when she was a teenager. Years later, she wanted to introduce them to her son, Lulu Gainsbourg, born in 1986.”I wanted to show them that, despite everything they put me through, it didn't stop me from living my life.“, she confides, “As a guide to forgiveness, I introduced them to my son“.
His adoptive parents want to take his money: “I could reimburse them for what they spent“
Neither one nor two, his adoptive parents wanted to take advantage of the situation: “Father Thénardier presented me with the bill“The latter wanted her to repay what they had spent on her.”Now that I was with someone famous and on TV, I could pay them back for what they spentwhile they had always exploited me by benefiting from a monthly subsidy“, she explains. Their relationship was therefore “hopeless“and as soon as she arrived, she got back in the taxi and left.”Too bad for them if they didn't understand anything“, she concluded.
