Several years ago, Florent Pagny denounced the attitude of Olivia Ruiz in the columns of Sat Cable TV. Invectives which had surprised the main person concerned. Asked by Current Womanthe singer had notably explained that she was undergoing relentless “painful”.
She is one of the rare ex-academics to have made her place in the music industry after leaving the Château de Dammarie-les-Lys. In 2001, Olivia Ruiz became known to the general public thanks to her appearance in the first season of the Star Academy. At the time, the sponsor of this first edition was none other than Florent Pagny, who has been fighting lung cancer for three years.
The singer was present during the very first bonus to welcome the students. At the time, out of 50 candidates, 25 were eliminated at the start of the show, and only 16 join the castle. A concept which greatly displeased Florent Pagny. “I was hallucinating. I wondered what this horror was…”he admitted during an interview with Tele-Leisure.
Return to the clash between Florent Pagny and Olivia Ruiz
In 2017, on the occasion of the launch of the sixth season of The VoiceFlorent Pagny had made unexpected confidences about the behavior of certain artists behind the scenes, notably that of Olivier Ruiz. “I had already met Matt [Pokora, nflr] on the sets and, unlike certain artists of the younger generation like Olivia Ruiz or Julien Doré, he is very polite“he explained. But the singer didn't stop there. In another interview given to Philippe Vandel, he attacked Olivia Ruiz again. “This kid, I was godfather of the first Star Academy where she was. Since then, I sometimes meet her on sets, I see her and she avoids me. She doesn't want to say hello to me, she doesn't want to cross my path. I saw it once, twice, three times, and I said to myself: 'Oh you, I understand.’”he said. “I don’t like her but hey, she repays me, she doesn’t love me. She’s the one who started it, anyway”he added in the show Tea or Coffee.
In 2017, interviewed by Faustine Bollaert for Current womanOlivia Ruiz returned to these repeated attacks. “It tends to upset me, I’m hypersensitive”she confided. “Florent Pagny, I really don't understand anything, he's coming after me. Right now he's very pushy… Overall, I tend to be very sensitive to criticism. My philosophy is 'Don't give too much importance to that bastard who hurt you'.”continued the singer. “On the other hand, yes, it’s true that I think about it, it’s painful, really!”she added. Complicated relationships.
