Johnny Hallyday’s widow has lost her house in Los Angeles in the fires that have ravaged the city since the beginning of the month. On Instagram, she publishes a message full of resilience.
Laeticia Hallyday, who lost her house in Pacific Palisades in early January in the fires that ravage Los Angeles, said his sadness on Thursday 23 January after this personal disaster.
“Today we have lost everything … And yet, the essential is still there. We are safe, standing, and despite the pain, nothing will flex us,” she wrote in legend A video of his house taken a few days before Christmas.
Recalling that this home, where she rebuilt after the death of Johnny Hallyday, was “much more than a place”, but “a setting of serenity, a sanctuary of precious memories”, she specifies having “lived on the days The brightest of (his) life “.
Despite the distress caused by this event, Laeticia Hallyday wants to be resilient: “It is almost inconceivable that it all disappeared in an instant … But the memories remain, engraved forever in my heart.”
She salutes the inhabitants of Pacific Palisades in her message, also hard hit by tragedy. “Today, my thoughts go to our community (…) to my neighbors and friends who have lost everything, our street which no longer exists.”
“Cross the storm with faith”
Almost three weeks after the destruction of her house, Laeticia Hallyday thanks those who supported her. “Each word, each gesture of tenderness is a breath of hope that warms the soul in this ordeal.”
“Thank you for thinking of us, thank you for your benevolence which envelops us in this moment of vulnerability,” she added. “I know we will find the strength to get up.”
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The widow of the Taulier is confident in the future: “Even if the shock is great and the sadness deep, we have learned to welcome the trials with humility and to cross the storm with faith.”
Specifying that she is accommodated by her friends, she concludes: “I keep hope that these fires will soon be mastered and that, despite the ashes, life will be reborn for each of us.”
“There is nothing left”
On January 11, Laeticia Hallyday shared images from her house on Instagram destroyed. “There is nothing left … only ashes where our laughs, our memories, our history lived. I have the impression of having lost part of my soul.”
Many personalities like Billy Cristal or Paris Hilton have also seen their house burn in these fires that killed nearly thirty people and forced thousands to flee.
Patrick Bruel is one of the French personalities affected by fires. “Even if obviously we always tell ourselves that we are not the most to be complained, that does not remove the violence of the thing,” he deplored on Instagram.
These destructive fires are not yet completely mastered by firefighters. The flames have destroyed since January 7 nearly 16,000 hectares, and devastated certain districts and suburbs of the American megalopolis.