Several months after the release of his autobiography Step by step in the nightCaroline Paulus alias Bambou continues to testify about her terrible childhood but also the ten years spent sharing the life of Serge Gainsbourg, until his death.
Bamboo, last pillar of Serge Gainsbourg
If Serge Gainsbourg’s dependence on alcohol got the better of his love affair with Jane Birkin, the artist was then able to count on the unwavering support of Bambou. In addition to having saved her life during a suicide attempt, the young woman had also sparked something in the interpreter of I came to tell you that I’m leavingmaking him realize how much alcoholism had eaten away at him. “When he was doing the TV shows, he couldn’t talk anymore, so I recorded him. I told him: ‘look, you’re never a better judge than yourself’. And so he had depression for six months, he didn’t think it was at this stage“, she said this Thursday, January 23 on RTL.
Serge Gainsbourg mocked for his alcoholism in showbiz
At the microphone of journalist Anaïs Bouton in the show StubbornBambou also denounced the terrible attitude of certain celebrities. Indeed, showbiz personalities ended up inviting Serge Gainsbourg and Bambou to social dinners with the sole aim of using the singer’s alcoholism to entertain themselves. “These were dinners where he was invited to entertain the gallery. (…) They made him drink and then they called him a dirty alcoholic, so it wasn’t very nice. And they took advantage of him being drunk to say super mean things to me. He was so drunk that he didn’t realize it anymore. And I told him the next day what had happened“, remembers the one who decided to leave the media and artistic scene more than twenty years ago.
