Jane Birkin: this conviction that she has always had on the death of her daughter Kate Barry

In 2013, Jane Birkin was living every parent’s nightmare when she lost her daughter, Kate Barry, after she fell from the fourth floor of her apartment. But the singer would have always had a conviction on this tragic disappearance of her eldest …

Nearly ten years ago, Jane Birkin lived one of the greatest dramas of her life. The singer, who died on Sunday July 16 at the age of 76, plunged at the time into deep sadness on learning of the sudden death of her eldest daughter Kate Barry on December 11, 2013. The 46-year-old photographer had fallen from the fourth floor of her Paris apartment, located in the 16th arrondissement, leaving his relatives totally helpless in the face of this sudden disappearance. His little sister Charlotte Gainsbourg in particular, who had admitted to having needed to leave the capital, to mourn. “It was painful, because I felt like I was escapingto leave Paris where my sister had died six months before. My mother, she was obviously very bad at that time, my sister Lou too, but I wanted to save my skin“, had explained to France Inter the actress, who had put down her suitcases in New York for six years, after the tragedy.

In an interview with Emilie Mazoyer on the show Music! in December 2020, Jane Birkin had mentioned the songs written for her daughter in her new album Oh ! Sorry you were sleeping…, notably Cigarettes. “I haven’t spoken to her in seven years“, she confided, before making a comparison with the songs she had written about her love stories. “It’s still nothing compared to the death of my daughter and the feeling that you are forever missing pieces of yourself.“, she had declared.

The conviction of Jane Birkin on the sudden disappearance of her daughter

In the columns of Paris Match, published this Thursday, July 20, the death of Kate Barry is mentioned as the greatest pain in the life of Jane Birkin. But the singer would have had an eternal conviction. “Did Kate, 46, accidentally fall out of the window of the apartment she was going to have to leave? Or did she commit suicide? Jane is convinced there was nothing premeditated“, write our colleagues. In 2020, still in Paris Matchthe singer had nevertheless made a sad observation on the departure of her eldest: “We will never know what happened that day. Doubt will always be there.” A secret that Kate took with her forever.