“His first friend was the local pharmacist”

It’s Jane, Birkin Jane. This is the name of the book by Gabrielle Crawford which will be released on October 2 by Actes Sud. Best friend of the singer and actress, the photographer of British origin decided to tell with tenderness and unvarnished the one who died in July 2023.The portrait of a private Jane Birkin, by her lifelong best friend, photographer Gabrielle Crawford, enriched with testimonies from those closest to her (friends, collaborators, family). A touching, intimate, but always modest text, which reveals a generous, fiery, talented, joyful and combative woman in the face of life’s trials.”specifies the publishing house.

Jane Birkin “subscribed to sleeping pills”

Asked by Paris Match on the occasion of the release of this book, Gabrielle Crawford reveals “that we imagine many false things about Jane Birkin“. The one who was her friend and confidante for more than sixty years thus affirms that the singer and actress has never taken drugs, apart from a few joints. But she adds on the other hand that she was “subscribed to sleeping pills”. “I’ve never seen anyone take so many sleeping pills and not be able to sleep. She distributed them generously at the end of meals. Whenever she moved somewhere, her first friend was the local pharmacist. Pharmacies in France had to suffer a significant loss of income after his disappearance“, she slips before also mentioning another little-known facet of Jane Birkin, her use of rare facial injections. “She lacked confidence even though she had everything going for her. Apart from injections in the forehead from time to time, she did nothing. She was stunningly beautiful but never stopped raving about her physique. of others.”

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