Lara Fabian, the Belgian singer with a huge heart and a moving voice, has always been able to touch her fans with her deep and personal songs. But behind the artist lies a deeply human woman, marked by personal trials.
One of the most painful was the loss of his mother, Luisa Crokaert, who died in 2019, after a long fight against illness. In a recent interview, Lara decided to return to one of the last conversations she had with her mother, an intimate and moving moment that she keeps preciously in her heart.
A tragic death
Lara Fabian has never hidden how much her mother played a central role in her life, both personally and artistically. Luisa, an Italian immigrant to Belgium, knew how to instill in her daughter the value of work, perseverance, but also the importance of family.
It was thanks to her that Lara learned to face trials with dignity, to never give up on her dreams, even when life seemed stubbornly complicating them.
As a reminder, Lara Fabian’s mother suffered from Lewy body disease, a form of dementia. The 55-year-old singer spoke about her death and her pathology last February during an interview with Bel RTL radio: “I lost my mother to a complex, neurodegenerative disease, very very serious, called Lewy body dementia. It’s a mix between Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. This is coupled with extremely violent hallucinations. It’s progressive and seesawing.”
-An important message
This Wednesday, January 22, 2025, Lara Fabian gave an interview to the Belgian media Gael. The opportunity for her to make poignant confidences about her mother. “A few days before her death, my mother, having completely lost her memory, told me :’ Do you know that I have a daughter named Lara ? You can’t imagine, she’s an angel. You don’t have to worry, you will meet her’”.
Lara Fabian says she took this statement like “a message”. “It was time for me to meet myself. Afterwards, I made important decisions, like moving to Sicily and refusing many more things professionally,” she reveals.
