At the start of the week, Bambou was Patrick Simonin's guest around the table The guest from TV5 Monde. Serge Gainsbourg's last companion returned to their meeting and remembers precisely this time when the singer attempted suicide.
After years of secrecy, Bambou is ready to speak. She tells herself like she never did before in Step by step in the nightan autobiography, released at the beginning of the month, centered on his tumultuous childhood and his passage to adulthood marked by his saving meeting in 1981 with Serge Gainsbourg. She, then a model, and he, a successful singer, attracted all the attention, many wondering who was the young woman who succeeded Jane Birkin in the tortured artist's hunt. His last companion before his death particularly remembers one day: the one when his lover attempted suicide.
Bambou looks back on Serge Gainsbourg's suicide attempt
Received in The guest from TV5 Monde, Bambou spoke frankly about his old demons and those of his former companion. Freshly separated from Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg is devastated but finds comfort in the arms of Caroline Elisabeth Paulus whom he affectionately nicknames Bambou. The latter recounted the composer's state of distress at that time: “He tried to jump from the fifth floor of the Lancaster Hotel, me, I was clinging to his jeans to stop him. He had drunk a lot, but this is where the Gainsbarre has arrived [dans sa vie] and he started drinking heavily. The breakup with Jane was very difficultfortunately I was there because it was a way of taking care of him and saving him”. However, this frail-looking photo model herself needed a strong shoulder to lean on.
Bambou makes a sad observation about his love story with Serge Gainsbourg
Still addicted to drugs at that time, Bambou had already tried to die several times, as Patrick Simonin notes in his show. She inevitably notes more than 40 years later: “It brought us together, we spent our time, in our love story, saving each other's lives. This is what bonded us, which strengthened our love. By calling me Bambou, by giving me another identity, it was also a way of getting out of this heavy past, where I came from. He gave me a huge gift.”. A present that it still carries to this day.
