Every week, Jordan de Luxe receives different personalities on the set of his show Jordan's.
The day after his interview with Yanns, it was with Laurent de Funès that the star host had the chance to chat.
During this interview, the grandson of Louis de Funès spoke with emotion on many subjects. From his grandfather's cult films to his exceptional relationship with Michel Galabru, including the painful loss of his father Daniel, he has opened his heart like rarely before.
Jeanne Barthélémy: an authoritarian woman
He also took the opportunity to return to the quarrel between Louis de Funès and his eldest son. According to his revelations, the source of this disagreement was linked to Jeanne Barthélemy, the last wife of the man who nicknamed himself Monsieur Disquietude.
“He (Daniel, editor's note) had a problem with his second wife who absolutely wanted to isolate the first family from the second. She absolutely wanted to erase us and my father had difficulty accepting the orders she wanted to give him, she was a very authoritarian woman“, he confided.
She absolutely wanted to push us aside, and she totally succeeded
According to him, Jeanne Barthélemy “ruled everything” within the family. And if she seemed to want to exclude Daniel from her husband's life, her influence did not stop there. Laurent still remembers the toxic behavior of the one who constantly sought to interfere in the actor's relationships and family ties died in January 1983.
“When I was little, I have memories of Jeanne, a very authoritarian woman who impressed me. When I was with my grandfather, she always came to disturb us, to disturb me. The earliest memory I have of it was on his lap. He played with me, we laughed, he asked me questions, and at one point, she came and said: 'Louis, can't you see that you're boring this child?' I froze suddenly“, he remembered. “It was a way of putting a mark“.
“She absolutely wanted to push us aside, and she totally succeeded“, he added before admitting to having been very angry with her.”because afterwards, my grandfather came to see us in secret and it was painful“. Touching confidences.
