When Johnny Hallyday was delivering a rare confidence about death : “I am like those great patients who do not fight more than not to die” – Gala

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Gilles Lhote, a close relative of Johnny Hallyday, published in November 2017, a book about the journey and the fighting spirit of the star 74-year-old called Johnny, the warrior. A book rich in anecdotes and confidences made by the Taulier itself. As those it made on its report on the death at the dawn of the 21st century.

Johnny Hallyday is dead. The one who has fought against the disease for several months has finally succumbed to the cancer that he had revealed in march 2017. In sixty years of career, Johnny Hallyday has very little time truly entrusted in the interview. For modesty but also because he knows it, a star of his magnitude should preserve the secrets, of not saying everything, keep it in the shade demons who may assault it. Still, the taulier has even agreed to deliver it a day. This was in 1998, during an interview granted to the newspaper Le Monde a few months before Lighting the fire at the stade de France. An interview in which Gilles Lhote, one close to the rocker, reminiscent of certain passages strong sense today, in his book, Johnny, the warrior (released November 30, editions Robert Laffont).

The confidences made to the writer Daniel Rondeau, author of the article and in which Johnny was revealed to be addicted to cocaine : “cocaine, I took a long time falling from my bed. Now it is finished. I take it for work, restart the machine. I’m not proud of it, it is as well, that’s all. “A discussion with an open heart in the course of which the rocker at the age of 55 referring to Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones, also explained to be a survivor. “The impression that being a survivor does leave me little more. I am like those great patients who do not fight more than not to die “. The revelations made shortly after the release of the autobiography of Johnny Hallyday called… Destroy. A survivor, it is as well as can be saw Johnny, a man who will be beaten until the end, surrounded by his family, with courage and dignity. On the plateau of TF1, he had spoken of the disease. His words resonate today. ” It is an ordeal. Like a lot of French people who have cancer, I look after myself and I fight, I fight. (…) I need my family with me “.

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