“Yes, there was something. » Guest of Michel Drucker this Sunday in “Roll on Sunday! » on France 3, Orlando, Dalida's brother, revealed that his sister had indeed had a relationship with François Mitterrand, confirming a rumor that spanned four decades. If, last year, with L’Obsthe producer still limited himself to declaring: “She always considered Mitterrand as a friend, he never stopped seducing her”, he now believes that “time is passing” and that the time has come to clear up the vagueness.
“It might as well be me who lived it who says it, rather than the famous biographers who invent, who write everything even though they know nothing and want to rewrite Dalida's life in their own way,” Orlando declared in the Sunday show.
“Mitterrand had all the nerve”
He thus clarified that the singer and the politician had known each other “for ten years”, before Mitterrand’s accession to the Elysée in 1981. “No one was offended or asked any questions. He was [alors] president of the Socialist Party. The day he became president, it panicked the media, they discovered this story, Orlando said. It wasn't very pleasant because there was family and all that. And Dalida had put herself in their place. »
The producer added that the man who was head of state from 1981 to 1991 “had all the nerve” and continued to regularly go to the artist's house, rue d'Orchampt, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. “It would ring at any time. The secret services who were with him were losing their minds,” he says.
“I will always be mad at him”
And to narrate how Dalida was woken up one morning at dawn by the sounds of work intended to install street lights in this small street in Montmartre which had until then been so dark, because the secret services were “afraid of an attack” targeting the president. during one of his impromptu visits. “The neighbors at the time said: ‘Thanks to Dalida, we had the light,’” Orlando smiled.
A few moments later, he showed a more serious expression when discussing the absence of François Mitterrand at his sister's funeral in 1987: “He did not come to the house or to [l’église de] the Madeleine.” “I resented him and I will always resent him given the friendship they had, seeing how Dalida risked her career and her friends to commit to him, she who had never engaged…” he lamented.
