By Bertrand Bielle | Journalist
Curious by nature, Bertrand is always on the lookout for the slightest little scoop. Passionate about football, he is never far from football and all the news that comes with it. However, showbiz or political events are also part of his preferred journalistic research.
Bambou's autobiography, which comes out this Thursday from “XO” editions, ends in 1991, as highlighted by “Paris Match”, which has just set out to meet him. A year which corresponds to the disappearance of Serge Gainsbourg, the father of her son Lulu. A coincidence? Not really…
“It’s not working”: Bambou has had a lot of trouble rebuilding her life since Serge Gainsbourg left, she says
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In full promotion for his book Step by step in the night (which has just been published this Thursday, November 7, 2024 by XO editions), Bambou, Serge Gainsbourg's ultimate companion, returned to Paris Match (in an interview to be found in their today's edition) on his difficult journey then on his meeting with the famous singer. A man with whom she had a child in January 1986 (his name is Lulu, he is a musician), when she thought she was sterile. His autobiography ends in 1991, with the artist's death. For what ?
Are we to understand that his life ended at that moment? “No, but after 1991, there is much less to talk about. For example, I try to have other romantic relationships, but it doesn't work. Impossible, after Serge. Professionally, I am still in the IMG modeling agency and my daily life was for a long time taken up by my role as mother, taking Lulu to the conservatory, attending her music theory lessons, making her practice the piano, her homework, cooking. .. Today I do yoga, I read a lot, and I don't know what tomorrow will bring“, she has just explained to the weekly magazine.
Bambou and Serge Gainsbourg, a supportive couple
Unprecedented revelations from the woman who received nothing from Serge Gainsbourg's inheritance upon his death. This is what she recently indicated to Parisian : “I have neither moral rights nor right of inspection. It is Serge’s four children who share it. I had the moral rights of Lulu (their son, editor's note) when he was little and he logically took it back when he came of age. It's normal, we were not married and Serge had not made a will. He died two weeks before his meeting with his lawyers. I had nothing after his death But I didn’t ask for anything.”
As a reminder, Bambou met Serge Gainsbourg when she was 18, in 1980. He was already 52. An age gap which did not prevent them from loving each other deeply and saving each other from their “self-destruction”, as underlines it Paris Match (to return to this interview). She with heroin, and he with alcohol: “When he drank too much, alone, he would go backwards. Without news, I called the Samu before even arriving at his house and we found him in a pool of blood, having smashed himself against his bar or a table.”
Today, Bambou calls herself “serene”. Because by publishing this book, she freed herself from a weight “of several tons”.
