On December 5, 2017, Johnny Hallyday took his last breath at his home in Marnes-la-Coquette at the age of 74. In the years following her death, Laura Smet opposed Laeticia Hallyday in a legal battle over Taulier’s inheritance. Thursday July 20, 2023, Nathalie Baye’s daughter spoke as rarely about this long period that she experienced as “hell”. “I was roped into a story that doesn’t resemble me and which gave an image of me light years away from who I am. It’s the first time I’ve suffered such a misunderstanding,” she said. confided to Elle magazine. This battle had serious consequences on Laura Smet’s life: “Even today, I pay the consequences of this overexposure in my profession, I have fewer proposals… When our personal life takes up too much space, it cuts us off. “Directors’ imagination, I understand it very well, but I miss my job a lot.”
To this media exposure and this legal fight, Laura Smet had to add the difficult mourning of her father. At the microphone of the podcast entitled La vie de Nelly, broadcast on Franceinfo, Friday June 14, 2024, the daughter of Johnny Hallyday and Nathalie Baye returned to the day of her death. “He was dressed in a suit, he was very handsome. I’ll tell you something. I’ve never seen a dead person before […], when I came home I said to myself: ‘But he’s not my father, he’s much smaller’. His soul was so (…)
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