During the last 10 years of his life, Serge Gainsbourg shared Bambou’s life. Real name Caroline Paulus, the singer and model had a little Lulu with him in 1986. This November 7, 2024, she released a poignant autobiography, “Step by step in the night”.
She recounts her life there with Gainsbourg became his debauched and provocative alter ego, “Gainsbarre”. And Bambou assures that around him, people have no nothing done to help the star get out of alcoholism. Quite the contrary.
Serge Gainsbourg ridiculed
At the RTL microphone, this January 23, 2025, Bambou remembers: “There were dinners where he was invited to entertain the gallery.” Opposite, the journalist Anaïs Bouton asks if it was not by “sneaky joy of seeing him spoil himself, get drunk”. And Serge Gainsbourg’s last wife to confirm.
Worse still, she describes a perverse nastiness in those close to her. Indeed, Bambou reveals: “They made him drink and then, they called him a dirty alcoholic. So it wasn’t very nice.” She, who also attended the parties, also took it for granted. She reveals: “And they took advantage of the fact that he was drunk to say super mean things to me“.
The suffering was immense for Bambou, first, and then for Serge Gainsbourg himself. She explains that initially, “He was so drunk that he no longer realized what he was doing.” It was she who told him “the next day what happened”. I just don’t.
-He had a breakdown when he discovered his reflection
Bambou, who hoped for a change, then had the idea of filming it. She says: “When he was doing TV shows and he couldn’t speak anymore, he was so drunk, I recorded it and told him well look, you are never a better judge than yourself.”
As a result, after seeing the man he had become because of drinking, Serge Gainsbourg sank a little further. His wife admits that he “suffered depression for 6 monthshe didn’t think it was at this stage.” He died of a heart attack on March 2, 1991 at age 62.
